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Linguistica Uralica
ISSN 1736-7506 (Electronic)
ISSN 0868-4731 (Print)
Rhyme Correspondences between Sinitic and Uralic Languages: On the Example of the Finnish -ala and -aja Rhymes; pp. 94-108
PDF | doi: 10.3176/lu.2014.2.02

Author
Jingyi Gao
Abstract
The present study explores rhyme correspondences between Finnic (~ Uralic) and Sinitic languages, taking the Finnish -ala and -aja rhymes as an example. Two rhyme correspondences are established: (1) Finnish -ala ⇔ Mandarin [-(ŭ̯)əˑn] ⇔ Cantonese [-(ʷ)ɐnˑ] ⇔ Taiwanese [-uˑn]; (2) Finnish -aja ⇔ Mandarin [-(ŭ̯)ɑˑŋ] ⇔ Cantonese [-(ʷ)o̞ˑŋ] ⇔ Taiwanese [-o̞ˑŋ]. The rhyme correspondences are supplied with ten Sino-Finnic (including Uralic) shared etymological items.
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