Bubrikh D.V. Historical Phonetics of the Finnish-Suomi Language (Istoricheskaya fonetika finsko-suomi yazyka), 1948. In Russian

Бубрих Д.В.
Историческая фонетика финского-суоми языка.
Советское финноугроведение. Вып. 8.
Петрозаводск: Государственное издательство Карело-Финской ССР, 1948.
232 стр.; издательская обложка утеряна, увеличенный формат.
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Bubrikh D.V.
Historical Phonetics of the Finnish-Suomi Language (Istoricheskaya fonetika finsko-suomi yazyka).
Soviet Finno-Ugric Studies. Issue 8.
Petrozavodsk: State Publishing House of the Karelo-Finnish SSR, 1948.
232 pp.; publisher's cover missing, enlarged format.

Dmitry Vladimirovich Bubrikh (1890–1949), a leading Soviet linguist, Finno-Ugrist, and founder of modern Soviet Finnic philology, was professor at Leningrad State University and the Karelo-Finnish State University in Petrozavodsk. He played a key role in the development of Finno-Ugric studies in the USSR, authoring foundational works on Finnish, Karelian, Veps, and other Baltic-Finnic languages, as well as on their historical grammar and dialectology.
This 1948 monograph is one of Bubrikh’s major contributions and remains a classic in historical linguistics of the Finnic branch. The book systematically reconstructs the phonetic evolution of Finnish (suomi) from Proto-Finnic through Proto-Baltic-Finnic to the modern literary language, covering vowel harmony, consonant gradation (lenition/fortition), metaphony, diphthongization, loss of final vowels, development of geminates, palatalization, and other sound changes. Bubrikh draws on comparative material from sister languages (Estonian, Karelian, Veps, Livonian, Ingrian), dialect data, and historical sources (Old Literary Finnish texts from the 16th–19th centuries), providing detailed etymological explanations and phonetic laws.
Published in Petrozavodsk during the late Stalin era as part of the “Soviet Finno-Ugric Studies” series, the work reflects the Soviet academic emphasis on national minority languages and historical-comparative linguistics, despite ideological pressures on Finno-Ugric scholarship at the time. Bubrikh’s rigorous, evidence-based approach made this book a standard reference for decades in Soviet and international Finnic linguistics.