Silja-Maija Spets looks at the evidentiality of the particles ulmaš and ə̑lə̑n in the Mari languages. The variation between the particles is evidential by nature. The results elaborate the claim that the particles form an event-level evidential system. doi.org/10.12697/jef...

Mervi de Heer @mervideheer.bsky.social & Luke Maurits analyse stability of meanings in basic vocabulary lists of Uralic languages by calculating a borrowing probability for each meaning and clustering them into groups of more borrowable and less borrowable meanings. doi.org/10.12697/jef...

Calls: Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics - "Special Issue: Livonian Studies V" (Jrnl)

Adele Vaks, Virve Vihman (@virvev.bsky.social) & Jan de Jong investigate the relationship between language exposure and Estonian competence of Estonian-Norwegian bilingual children using the Q-BEx questionnaire, Sentence Repetition Task and Cross-Linguistic Lexical Task. doi.org/10.12697/jef...

In the fresh ESUKA/JEFUL paper Maria Tuulik and colleagues from the Institute of Estonian Language investigate how large language models (LMMs) can be used in lexicography for giving definitions and presenting word meaning(s). The paper is in Estonian. doi.org/10.12697/jef...

Fresh ESUKA/JEFUL paper: Heidi Salmi & Jussi Salmi apply a machine learning classifier algorithm to examine the variation of NUT participle in the oldest written Finnish used by Mikael Agricola. doi.org/10.12697/jef...

The first article of ESUKA/JEFUL 2025 is published: Kristel Algvere writes about adult L1 users’ attitudes towards their proficiency in written Estonian and how their responses reflect language ideologies. doi.org/10.12697/jef...

The last paper in 2024 ESUKA/JEFUL is by Niklas Metsäranta who discusses the etymology of four Mari words: Proto-Mari *čükte- ‘light, set fire to’, *poδəla- ‘spoon, slurp’, *pükte- ‘brood (eggs)’, and *püəž- ‘sweat’. doi.org/10.12697/jef...

Ernesta Kazakėnaitė and Rogier Blokland write about the finding of an early Lord’s Prayer in a southern variety of Saami which is potentially the oldest known Saami text in manuscript form that has survived to the present day. doi.org/10.12697/jef...