Lakó György: Proto Finno-Ugric sources of the Hungarian phonetic stock (Budapest, 1968)

OY. LAKÓ PROTO FINNO-UGRIC SOURCES OF THE HUNGARIAN PHONETIC STOCK The author expounds the theory of Finno-Ugric relationship of languages, elucidates the degrees of affinity bet­ween the individual Finno-Ugric lan­guages and explains the reasons why Hungarian today is different from the tongues related to it. By way of intro­duction, he discusses the relationship of Finno-Ugric comparative phonetics with Hungarian historical phonetics, and pointing out the special tasks of Finno-Ugric comparative phonetics, he gives information about the mate­rial and sources of the comparative studies. The main part of the book is devoted to the discussion of the Proto Finno-Ugric phonetic stock; deriva­tives existing in Hungarian and the other Finno-Ugric languages are intro­duced in a great abundance. The work may be of interest to all experts of comparative linguistics, though it is primarily intended to meet the require­ments of university students dealing with Finno-Ugric (Uralic) linguistics. The book has been written in a style well understandable even without more profound knowledge of phonetics, and it will certainly satisfy the de­mands of the general reading public as well. AKADÉMIAI KIADÓ Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest

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