Jukagiirin ja uralilaisten kielten sukulaisuutta yritetään taas todistaa uudessa kirjassa ja tällä kertaa asialla ovat Václav Blažek ja Peter Piispanen.
https://www.gorgiaspress.com/yukaghir-and-uralic
”In our monograph Yukaghir and Uralic (Gorgias Press 2024) we try to demonstrate the genealogical relationship between two language families, Yukaghir and Uralic, on the basis of a corpus consisting of 360 lexical comparisons between Yukaghir and at least two Uralic subbranches. Concerning the grammatical comparison, we plan to devote to it a special study. In the book we also discuss the question of hypothetical interference between Yukaghir and the Uralic languages located in Siberia, namely Samoyedic and Ob-Ugric. We judge that such contacts could really have taken place and we ourselves find some new comparisons supporting their existence. But it would be impossible to explain the entirety of the comparative material in this way. Accepting both scenarios, the distant genealogical relationship between both the families later contacts between some of their parts, we think that the time is right to apply the standard method of linguistic palaeontology to the hypothetical common Yukaghir-Uralic protolanguage, although now we do no longer try to reconstruct it. This approach has usually been based on an analysis of the ecological lexicon, especially the zoological and botanical terminology. Confronting these results with palaeozoological and palaeobotanical distributions of studied species, we are able to determine the probable territory of the protolanguage. We have collected 33 terms belonging to the category ‘Zoological terminology’ and 26 terms from the category ‘Botanical terminology’.”
https://www.gea.mpg.de/97348/abstracts- ... rkshop.pdf (sivu 13)
Toivottavasti joku uralisti saa tuon kirjan pian käsiinsä ja tekee siitä kirja-arvion. Olisi nimittäin mielenkiintoista kuulla, päteekö Aikion kritiikki vuodelta 2014 edelleen tässä kirjassa käytettyyn menetelmään.
”In light of this data, it is actually rather odd to state that the paper “presents and discusses regular sound correspondences between Uralic geminate items and Yukaghiric” (Piispanen 2013: 165). The examples show that in reality, Piispanen (2013) does not operate with regular correspondences as required by the comparative method. Instead, we are presented with a collection of vague lexical lookalikes, accompanied by ad hoc and contradictory assertions of sound changes that could be postulated to account for the random similarities between them. When such a flawed methodological approach is applied to a corpus of Uralic etymological material that is already in itself largely invalid, the result is an etymological ghost hunt. Needless to say, none of Piispanen’s claims regarding Uralic-Yukaghir sound correspondences can be accepted.”
https://journal.fi/fuf/article/download/86078/44958 (sivu 18)