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...

Kirsi-Maria Nummilan tuore kirjasuomen historia pureutuu kirjoitetun suomen ja suomenkielisen kirjallisen kulttuurin varhaisvaiheisiin. Lue sähkökirjaa: oa.finlit.fi. Osta kirja: kirjat.finlit.fi ja Tiedekirja (Snellmaninkatu 13). #suomenkieli #vanhakirjasuomi

Millaisia kielellisiä viestejä välittävät turkulaisten yritysten nimet Tintå, Hautaustoimisto Perttala ja Hügge? Hanna Lantto tarkkailee uudessa blogikirjoituksessa Suomen vanhimman kaupungin Turun kielimaisemia. Lue lisää Vähäisistä lisistä! www.finlit.fi/ajankohtaist... Kuva: Paula Sjöblom.

What do you like to do when washing dishes? I listen to podcasts. Today I thoroughly enjoyed this episode on the Lingthusiasm podcast. Back in the day I studied comparative Indo-European linguistics. I loved the adventure of reconstruction, sound laws, Sanskrit etc. open.spotify.com/episode/7rYy...

Yesterday the Finno-Ugric department at the University of Szeged celebrated the Udmurt language day by familiarizing ourselves with Southern Udmurt dialects by watching a film. We also made traditional hay decorations. See the film here: youtu.be/e-Wi58ZfkDI?... #langsky

The Eger caste is definitely worth a visit. The well-organized exhibitions teach a lot about the time of the ottoman rule, what happened before and after and how the popular novel and film Egri csillagok came to be. #traveling

I recently got the chance to attend a gala evening organized by the SzeBit 2025 business & IT gala program. Guess what? I won a PC at the lottery! I'm planning to install a Linux distro on it and use it as work computer for paper writing. It's easy to travel with too! #SzeBit

New study using the #GramBank database finds that about 1/3 of 191 proposed grammatical universals hold across languages @verkerk.bsky.social#GramBank#linguistics #universals #typology #Bayesian

Adventure time: I'm traveling from Szeged, Hungary to Cluj-Napoca, Romania to attend a celebration. They have emplyed lecturers for Finnish language and culture for 50 years. Yesterday I worked on my paper and prepped classes for next week. I'm planning to relax on the train and read books. #travel

Szegedin fennougristiikan laitoksella kollegat eri puolelta Unkaria esittelevät tutkimustaan. Kielten ja aiheiden kirjo kertoo, monipuolisesta osaamisesta.

LMU Munich offers a funded PhD position for three years at the Graduate School of Language & Literature. The deadline for applications is 7 December 2025: www.en.lipp.uni-muenchen.de/application/...

Perjantaina on kivaa työskennellä hiljaisella yliopistolla omassa rauhassa. Kirjallisuusluento on valmis. Pohdin artikkeliakin. Opiskelijat kiiruhtavat Halloween-bileisiin. Szegedissä lämpötila on +20 astetta, joten työhuoneella ei ainakaan taas palele. #lehtorihommat

On Monday, 3 November, Daria Zhornik (LMU) will give a talk summarizing the results of her doctoral dissertation. The title of the talk is "Discourse organisation in Northern Mansi: new findings". 14:15–15:45 CET, A 016 in the main building: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...

Very interesting PhD defence in Tartu tomorrow: Patrick O'Rourke „Lounaisitämerensuomi: lounaisten itämerensuomalaisten kielten murteellinen kehitys“ („Southwest Finnic: the dialectal development of southwestern Finnic languages“)

Turun yliopistoon saatiin yksi huippuyksikkö ja kaksi akatemiaprofessoria.

Opettajana on kiva huomata, että suomen tunnilla voidaan kommunikoida pääasiassa suomeksi. Ulkomailla opettaessa erityisesti, tämä on mukava hetki. #opettaminen

The Finno-Ugric department in Szeged is celebrating "The Night of the Reasearcher" with a Lennart Meri film marathon. Documentaries on Finno-Ugric peoples. Happy Friday! #lingsky

Tietolipas-sarjassa on julkaistu ensimmäinen suomenkielinen perusteos aineettoman kulttuuriperinnön käsitteestä. Lue sähkökirjana (oa.finlit.fi) tai osta painettuna (kirjat.finlit.fi tai Tiedekirja, Snellmaninkatu 13). #aineetonkulttuuriperintö #kulttuuriperintö #kirjat

Viimeiset päivät Suomessa. Paljon tuli tehtyä ja jäi tekemättä. Luin 3 viihdekirjaa ihan siitä ilosta, että suomenkielistä lukemista on helposti saatavilla.

The final day at #cifu14 is an excursion day. I visited the A. Le Coq beer museum. Thank you for a great week!

The last minutes

Congressus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum 15 will be held in Budapest in 2030! #cifu14 #langsky #finnougric #linguistics

Shared substrate words and influences in proto-germanic and proto-finnic? J. Saarikivi discusses the prospects of historical sociolinguistics and loanword reserach. In discussion, the relationship with Baltic also needs deep attention #cifu14 #langsky #etymology

A fantastic #cifu14 reception at the Estonian National Museum with greetings and songs by representatives of many Finno-Ugric peoples!

Final plenary at #cifu14 is about Livonian and language revilatization. Don't forget to check out a good pages collecting info www.livones.net/en #langsky

Final discussion in the "Building diachronic corpora for minority languages" workshop touched legal issues, version control, applications of AI among other topics. We had a productive and encouraging workshop #cifu14 #langsky

Learned about a cool minority language resource in Sweden: www.polarbibblo.se/las-lyssna-o... #cifu14 #langsky

Many people have come to learn about the @projektinel.bsky.social and legacy data. There is so much to do with Samoyedic languages but others too #cifu14 #langsky

Hi #cifu14! Welcome to my talk tomorrow friday at 9.00, room 106 "Steps and strategies of developing the Uralic basic vocabulary dataset UraLex". I'm in the Diachronic Corpora workshop 📚👩‍💻😊🌞#langsky

The anticipated Diachronic Corpora For Minority Languages is starting at #cifu14

Today, Hungarians celebrate their national day, Estonians celebrate the 34th anniversary of the restoration of independence. Finno-Ugricists of all nations spend this day at the 14th Congressus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum in Tartu. #cifu14 (For more information, see cifu14.ut.ee .)

A petition has been launched at #cifu14 "--recognize the South Estonian language in Estonia as an independent, indigenous regional language--" #langsky

Plenary speaker A. Lukács tells that the field language acquisition is dominated by a few languages. There is a huge research gap in regard of the Uralic family even though e.g. Hungarian and Finnish are well-studied. #cifu14 #langsky

Day 2 of #cifu14. The room is packed. Excited to hear about the trends that have emerged in research of grammar.

A round table has gathered to discuss how information on Uralic linguistics is conveyed to the general public and institutions financing research. Prof. Laakso comments that science communication is not a luxury, it is vital and necessary in our field. #cifu14

The symposium on human past takes us on journey. How can linguistic, archaeological and genetic data and spreads be associated with each other? #humanpast #cifu14

#CIFU14 just was opened officially and there is an INEL delegation about to present some talks in the next couple of days. Stay tuned for that!

First plenaryry talk at #cifu14 is Challenges of Standardizing a small Baltic Finnic Language: The Case of Estonian #langsky

#cifu14 has 319 registered participants. There is something to learn at all symposia. I'll be running around all week 😅

Greetings from the 14th Congressus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum held in Tartu, Estonia. Researches working with Uralic languages have gathered to share information and news. #cifu14 #lingsky

Ylellä pientä kommentaaria viime aikoina paljon esillä olleeseen tutkimukseen yle.fi/a/74-20174009

Book tip: short papers on Uralic linguistics. Nice to read while traveling. FOLIA URALICA DEBRECENIENSIA 32. finnugor.arts.unideb.hu/fud_honlap/f... #lingsky

Olen lomaillut hieman täällä Unkarissa. Nyt siirryn Suomeen. Kiva käydä kotona!

I have so many papers and books open in my Zotero app, I get lost reading a little and there. What was I supposed to be doing again? #phdsky

Viikon kuluttua Suomeen pitkästä aikaa. Kiva päästä puhumaan suomea arjessa, tavata perhettä ja ystäviä ja syömään kotoisia herkkuja #kesä

Taking a #vacation at lake Balaton. Plans include swimming and visiting a winery

Had an inspiring Zoom meeting with my main supervisor. Good discussion and advice. I'm looking for to meeting my whole supervisor team in person at the congress of finno-ugric studies in august, we all live in different countries. #phdsky

Testing a yoga class today because my home office setting is not ergonomic at all. I can feel it in my back.

Mitä luen nyt. Kirjallisuuskurssi on syksyllä, joten valmistaudun jo nyt. #kirjat #lukeminen

The feeling when you get the email with the reviews of your paper 😯 Revision round, I'm ready for the challenge and improve my research #phdsky