#urals

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Local media reported that most of the dead were older people unable to leave their homes. According to local authorities, many of the deaths occurred on Sunday in the village of Yuldus, in Kurgan province on the border between the Urals and Siberia.

Regional emergency service officials said the death toll could increase. A state of emergency was introduced in Kurgan province, where more than 5,000 buildings have burned down. Fires have also engulfed thousands of hectares in Sverdlovsk province, and areas of Siberia’s Omsk and Tyumen provinces.

During a visit to Kurgan province on Monday, Russia’s emergency situations minister, Aleksandr Kurenkov, said settlements were no longer at risk from the blazes, though local media reported on Tuesday that fires still burned there, as well as in Sverdlovsk and Tyumen.

The EU’s Copernicus atmosphere monitoring service (Cams) said its data showed “active fires burning in a band stretching from Russia’s Chelyabinsk region across Omsk and Novosibirsk regions to Primorye in the far east, affecting also Kazakhstan and Mongolia.”

In recent years, Russia has experienced especially widespread forest fires, which experts have blamed on unusually dry summers and high temperatures. The link between the climate crisis and wildfires is complex, but a Carbon Brief analysis quotes Dr Cristina Santin, a wildfires researcher from Swansea University, as saying increased temperatures “can increase the risk of severe fires by causing vegetation to dry out”.

The experts also cited a 2007 decision to disband a federal aviation network that spotted and fought fires. Its assets were turned over to regional authorities, leading to the force’s rapid decline and attracting much criticism. While the government later reestablished the agency, its resources remained limited, hampering its ability to monitor the massive forests of Siberia and the far east.

[queenrizzardnthelizardscissored]

no uralic language family?

I would like to try a "what language family is your first language in" poll but wrangling english speakers who don't know english is germanic would be too much of a hassle I think

[prozakupki]

Российская нефть продается с дисконтом в 30 долларов к Brent

Российская нефть продается с дисконтом в 30 долларов к Brent

Пока не установить начальную минимальную цену на российскую нефть марки Urals выше уровня потолка цен, введённого странами Запада и США, ее стоимость будет продолжать находиться ниже 60 долларов за баррель. Текущее введение ответных мер не равнозначно санкциям недружественных стран, для стабилизации положения на рынке нефти и политического превосходства над Западом необходим именно жёсткий подход…

[silentwhispersintheforest]

Ural Owl by Milan Zygmunt

[letmeinimafairy]

A beautiful scene I saw the road to Ural mountains - burned forest overgrown with fireweed. There were a lot of wildfires last year, this year gave a reprieve with all the rains, so scorched patches are slowly healing.

Painted on a piece of pale blue sea pottery. Available.

[veradansatirlar]

[canisalbus]

Oh hey didn't know Finnish doesn't have gendered pronouns!! So good to finally see someone else who shares my experience of "why do I need to separate people by gender that's so weird" while learning English lol (Hungarian only has ő (singular they) and az (it))

-local Hungarian lurker

Very distantly related languages (as you may know already) :]

Giving you a friendly Finno-Ugric high five.

[mehilaiselokuva]

URALIC LANGUAGES 101

an over-simplified guide for people who have never studied them

from real questions I have received

as I am finally qualified enough to talk about them

WHAT?

A language family spanning (mostly northern) Eurasia. The three biggest languages by amount of speakers are Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian.

WAIT, WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE ARE MORE?

The Sámi languages might be the most famous of the "smaller" Uralic languages, but have you heard about Karelian? Udmurt? Hill Mari? Nganasan? There are 38~42 Uralic languages that we know as of today.

WHERE ARE THESE OTHER LANGUAGES?

(image description: the locations of the Uralic languages on a map. The Uralic languages span from modern-day Hungary, the northern Nordics, and northern Russia.)

(CONTINUE READING UNDER THE CUT)

BUT I THOUGHT HUNGARIAN WAS ALTAIC / RELATED TO TURKISH?

Modern science links Hungarian to the Uralic languages. The links to "Altaic" (many on the field don't believe in the Altaic theory) and the Turkic languages are speculative.

ARE THEY RELATED TO ENGLISH?

No, they are a separate language family. English is more related to Russian than Finnish or Hungarian.

HOW DID THEY END UP WHERE THEY ARE NOW?

We still haven't figured this out, but the Uralic peoples' proposed homeland is often located north of Central Asia.

HOW DO THEY KNOW THESE ARE RELATED TO EACH OTHER?

Linguistics uses many different ways to find out relations between languages. With the Uralic languages, there are many cognates (=words that come from the same root word) that exist in most languages. These words can be used to reconstruct Proto-Uralic, a hypothesis of what the original Uralic people might have spoken.

Examples:

"tongue, (language)" (Finnish) kieli, (Estonian) keel, (Veps) kel', (N.Sami) giella, (Erzya) keľ, (Beserman) kål, (E.Khanty) köł, (Mator) kašte

"two" (Finnish) kaksi, (Courland Livonian) kakš, (Ter Sami) kïkktʼ, (Moksha) kafta, (Mari) kok, (Komi-Zyrian) kyk

HOW DO THESE LANGUAGES SOUND LIKE?

Here are selected samples of text from a few different branches of Uralic languages:

NGANASAN: Mənə ńinti̮ˀam ńiluməni̮nə inśüδüˀ, mi̮əďindi̮ˀam hüətə. (I never sledge in my life, I always go by foot.) SELKUP: Nılʲčik qumɨp mee qontɨrämɨt čääŋka. (We have not seen such a person.) BESERMAN: Picʼi pilə̑ sʼed jə̑ rcʼijenezlə̑. (To the little boy with black hair.) MANSI: Mənə kńigaðəmtu miśiəm. (I gave him/her the book.) NORTH SÁMI: Sáhpán njuikii girjji duohken. (The mouse jumped from behind the book.) TVER KARELIAN: Mie hüviin zdaičin igzamenati miun, na felÍdšerku pandih. (I passed the exams well and I was put [to work] as a nurse.)

If you have more questions about these languages, feel free to ask me! I am no professor but am majoring in this at the university so I know more than the average person hehe

[phantomrin]

Inktober 2023

Day 18 - The Mistress of the Copper Mountain

"And she herself, she jumped up and took hold of the rock with her hands, then she skipped on to it and started running about on all fours like a lizard. And instead of hands and feet she had little green paws and a tail came out and there was a black stripe that went half way down the back, but the head was still a maid's."

(P.P. Bazhov "The Mistress of the Copper Mountain")

[mapsontheweb]

Distribution Uralic Languages is very unique with most spoken Hungarian totally isolated from others

[siir-defterim]

"..Ah şairler!

Siz büyüttünüz bu yaraları.."

Ali Ural

[eerbea]

boşluğa terk edilen ellerde değil, nereye tutunacağını bilen ellerde özgürlük. ✨

[prozakupki]

Курс российской нефти Urals вырос 1,53% до $54,33 за баррель

Курс российской нефти Urals вырос 1,53% до $54,33 за баррель

Российский сорт нефти Urals растет вместе с основными бенчмарками Brent и Urals. Курс европейского Brent вырос на 0,47% до 82,58$, стоимость техасского сорта WTI поднялась на 0,50% до 78,5$, в то время как разница Urals к Brent находится на уровне в 28,17 доллара, что делает цену российской нефти торгуемой на позиции в 54,33$. Таким образом рост курса Urals по отношению к предыдущему дню…

[wh40kartwork]

Angron The Red Angel

by Halil Ural

(via Warhammer Art)

[emilylorange]

february's BirdWhisperer bird is an Ural owl! reference photo by Erik Karits

[birdmemorandum]

フクロウ。 Ural owl.