Proto-Indo-Uralic can be reconstructed through comparative linguistics
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The retrieved records partially reference Proto-Uralic and Indo-European roots and mention Proto-Indo-Uralic as a hypothetical linguistic concept in user discussions, but do not provide definitive scholarly consensus or detailed comparative methodology establishing that Proto-Indo-Uralic can be successfully reconstructed.
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In the animal psychobiology literature, the terms congenital, predetermined, heritable, and chronotypy each have meanings that can help differentiate implicit, sometimes hidden, elements of the broad and onerous term, "innate." Relevant phenomena in animals' nonverbal recognition and communication systems are discussed. Several ontogenetic analyses reveal that thermotactile stimulation and other forms of heat are potent determinants of learning and attachment in a variety of endothermic species. We describe preliminary data from language evolution and word usage that mirror physiological and affective aspects of thermal stimuli in development. Specifically, we examine the thermal and affective meaning of "warm" and "cool" in languages used in temperate and in tropical climates, as well as the histories of such words in languages that derived from remote linguistic origins, namely Indo-European and Proto-Uralic roots. In each of these languages, there have evolved conjoint thermal and affective meanings that suggest a reflection of fundamental homeothermic biology in the psychology of human language.
Published in Developmental psychobiology (1990)
# Could Proto-Indo-Uralic be reconstructed?
Tags: historical-linguistics, proto-indo-european, reconstruction, uralic
- Score: 3
- Views: 1547
- Answers: 5
- Answered: yes
- Asked by: Number File (1609 rep)
- Asked: 2019-11-27
- Edited: 2019-11-28
- Site: linguistics
## Question
I am interested in linguistics and how words spread from place to place. I have seen that there are two language families, and that there are signs that they might be related. Proto-Indo-Uralic is the hypothetical reconstructed language from Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Uralic, the respective ancestors of the Indo-European and Uralic languages. I'm just curious about if the two are related enough to be reconstructed. I'd personally say yes because Proto-Afroasiatic has been reconstructed with some difficulty: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520097995/reconstructing-proto-afroasiatic-proto-afrasian
Link (see "Some possible cognates"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Uralic_languages
## Answers
### Answer by user23769 (score: 6)
Indo-European and Uralic are low-level families, the existence of which is not questioned by linguists and has been recognized for at least three centuries now, even by p
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