Social:Paleo-Laplandic languages
| Paleo-Laplandic | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Sápmi |
| Extinct | around 500 AD |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
 Languages of northern Europe in the early iron age | |
Paleo-Laplandic is a hypothetical group of extinct but related languages spoken in Sápmi (northern Scandinavia). The speakers of Paleo-Laplandic languages switched to Sámi languages, and the languages became extinct around 500 CE. A considerable amount of words in Sámi languages originate from Paleo-Laplandic;[1] more than 1,000 loanwords from Paleo-Laplandic likely exist. Many toponyms in Sápmi originate from Paleo-Laplandic. Because Sámi language etymologies for reindeers have preserved a large number of words from Paleo-Laplandic, this suggests that Paleo-Laplandic groups influenced Sámi culture.[2]
Due to irregular correspondences in Sámi loanwords from Paleo-Laplandic, it can be theorized that the words were borrowed from distinct but related languages that were characterized in the west by an s-type sibilant, while in the east it was an š-type sibilant.
Many words relating to the environment or reindeer such as ája ("spring") are likely loanwords from Paleo-Laplandic into Sámi.[3][4] The substrate words have no apparent parallels to any known language. Linguist Jurij Kuzmenko (de) compared them with the Pre-Germanic substrate words but found no similarities aside from a distinction between central and peripheral accentuation.[5]
See also
- Pre-Finno-Ugric substrate
References
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- ↑ Haarmann, Harald (2016). Modern Finland. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co.. ISBN 978-1-4766-2565-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=KEA4DQAAQBAJ.
- ↑ Aikio, Ante (2012). "An Essay on Saami Ethnolinguistic Prehistory". Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia/Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne (Helsinki) (266): 63–117. https://www.sgr.fi/sust/sust266/sust266_aikio.pdf.
- ↑ Aikio, Ante (2004). "An Essay on Substrate Studies and the Origin of Saami". Etymologie, Entlehnungen und Entwicklungen: Festschrift für Jorma Koivulehto zum 70. Geburtstag. Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki. 63. Helsinki. pp. 5–34. https://www.academia.edu/4811770.
- ↑ Kuzmenko, Jurij K. (2008) (in de). Der samische Einfluss auf die skandinavischen Sprachen: Ein Beitrag zur skandinavischen Sprachgeschichte (1 ed.). Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Bln Nordeuropa Inst.. ISBN 978-3-932406-25-6. OCLC 244629279. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244629279.
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