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- Title
CLUSTERING LEXICAL VARIATION OF FINNIC LANGUAGES BASED ON ATLAS LINGUARUM FENNICARUM.
- Authors
HONKOLA, TERHI; SANTAHARJU, JENNI; SYRJÄNEN, KAJ; PAJUSALU, KARL
- Abstract
The article focuses on lexical relations of the Finnic languages. Here we studied whether lexical data is suitable for detecting the coarse-grained and fine-grained substructure within the Finnic group. We evaluated this by clustering old lexical variation from a dialectal dataset covering the whole Finnic speaker area (Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum; ALFE) using quantitative methods adopted from population genetics, and by comparing our results to groups suggested by earlier linguistic literature. We found the main lexical division between north-eastern and south-western Finnic. According to our lexical analysis, the Finnic languages are Finnish, North Estonian, South Estonian, Livonian, Karelian, Veps, and Votic-Ingrian. These groups matched well with the earlier suggested divisions, and we concluded that lexical data could be utilised more often in defining linguistic sub-structures, especially in linguistic situations that involve dialect continua.
- Subjects
FINNIC languages; LEXICON; QUANTITATIVE research; AUSTRONESIAN languages; URALIC languages
- Publication
Linguistica Uralica, 2019, Vol 55, Issue 3, p161
- ISSN
0868-4731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3176/lu.2019.3.01