Happy Kindred People's Day to all who celebrate, which should be everyone! Colleagues at the University of Szeged asked AI to draw a Finno-Ugric family tree, this is what they got. Can't wait to study Fijarii!

Autumn on campus Universität München

Every two years, we have courses in Uralic ethnography, which means... Mansi ornaments! Here is our old quiz: can you tell frog legs from antlers? docs.google.com/forms/d/1yyeP9…

Dive into the world of Uralic languages with us! This semester, on Tuesdays, we'll be spotlighting peculiar aspects of our favorite languages in a series of postings with four special rubrics. Stay tuned for intriguing facts and insights!

We are starting our series of postings about Uralic languages and peoples with a #map_of_the_month presenting self-designations of Udmurts and Besermans. Stay tuned for more Uralic facts!

Greetings from our team at the 6th Saami Linguistics Symposium (SAALS6) in Helsinki: Riku Erkkilä, Ilya Egorov, and Ksenia Shagal. You can find the programme and the abstracts at the conference webpage: blogs.helsinki.fi/saals62024/

On Monday, 11 November, our doctoral researcher Daria Zhornik will give a talk on Information structure in Northern Mansi: determining relevant parameters. 14:15–15:45 CEST, M 105 in the main building. The Zoom link is here: finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungsschw…

Here comes our next rubric, #structure_of_the_month, where we present interesting grammatical and phonological phenomena attested in Uralic languages. This time – predestinative!

On Monday, 18 November, our doctoral researcher Denis Rakhman will give a talk on Purpose clauses and complementation: a semantic map. 14:15–15:45 CEST, M 105 in the main building. The Zoom link is here: finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungsschw…

Ready to learn about the Uralic #manuscript_of_the_month? This time it is a birch bark letter found in Novgorod with a text in Karelian!

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/jeful…

Our fourth monthly rubric, #etymology_of_the_month, presents interesting Uralic etymologies. Here is where the West Uralic languages got their words for 'hammer' and 'axe'!

On Monday, 2 December, our doctoral researcher Ilia Egorov will give a talk on Typological parameters in phylogenetic research: a case study of Saami and other Uralic languages. 14:15–15:45 CET, M 105 in the main building. The Zoom link is here: finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungsschw…

Khanty varieties show fascinating diversity in many domains, for example, in their pronominal paradigms. Check out our #map_of_the_month to see how different Khanty first person singular pronouns can be.

On Monday, 9 December, Ekaterina Aplonova (CNRS‒LLACAN) will give a talk about the ComPLETE database developed to gather information about verbal complex predicates from various languages. The talk will take place online at 14:15–15:45 CET (finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungsschw…)

Dear all, please note that our institute is now _also_ on Bluesky: Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München (finnougristiklmu). Follow us there for updates and interesting facts about Uralic languages and cultures!