Развитие прасамодийских последовательностей гласных: место в истории самодийского языка-предка / The development of Proto-Samoyedic vowel sequences and their place in the history of Proto-Samoyed

the history of Proto-Samoyed The paper examines the issue of Proto-Samoyed vowel sequences (* Və/ə̑ ) reconstructed on the basis of correspondences between Nganasan and Enets vowel sequences and Nenets long vowels. Their genesis from Proto-Uralic has recently been described as a special development of certain sound combinations, namely * VwV , * Vli , * Vji , except for a few cases traced back to PU * Vx . The conditions for the development are not always analyzed unambiguously. In the article, I demonstrate the regularity of the development of PS * Və/ə̑ from earlier vocalic confluences that have formed after previously established loss of PU * j and * w , and claim that the development is part of a sequence of regular sound changes and other dia-chronical processes. A detailed relative chronology is also proposed for the processes under discussion.