Proto-Mordvinic

proper noun

Reconstructed ancestral language of the Roto-Mordvinic branch of the Uralic language family.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesReconstructed ancestral language of the Roto-Mordvinic branch of the Uralic language family.
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    Based on data collected by the latter and on a reanalysis of the declension of this paradigm, an alternative reconstruction model for Proto-Mordvinic is proposed, which leans more heavily on the ergonomics of conjugations and morphological marking strategies, in an attempt to reconcile synchrony and diachrony.

    2008, LÉONARD, Jean-Léo, Simplicité de la flexion mordve?, Peeter Online Journals, pages 363-400
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