TY - JOUR AU - Knüppel, Michael PY - 2012/09/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Ugrisch und Penuti JF - Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen JA - FUF VL - 2012 IS - 61 SE - Articles DO - 10.33339/fuf.85677 UR - https://journal.fi/fuf/article/view/85677 SP - 92–109 AB - <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>The article deals with attempts to “connect” the Ob-Ugrian languages with the Penuti group of languages spoken in North America (California, Oregon etc.) in terms of a genetic relationship. Such attempts were undertaken by Otto J. v. Sadovszky (1925–2004), who considered the speakers of Penuti languages to be migrants from the Ob-Ugrian area in North Siberia; he tried to establish a new language family, which he and his followers called “Cal-Ugrian”. In the article, I first outline previous attempts to connect American Indian languages with Siberian languages, language families and groups of languages. I then present theories attempting to establish a relationship between the Uralic and the North American languages, as well as v. Sadovszky’s “Cal-Ugrian” theory; and demonstrate the weakness of the methods used by v. Sadovszky and his students.</p></div></div></div> ER -