Re: Tonal IE languages

From: Mark Odegard
Message: 4803
Date: 2000-11-22

> Also Lithuanian, Latvian, Slovene, Serbian and Croatian have pitch
accent (tonal contrasts in accented syllables). Ancient Greek had it
too. Danish has no pitch accent, but its "sto/d" is a related
phenomenon.
>
> None of these languages (including Punjabi, Swedish and Norwegian)
is truly tonal. Technically speaking, they are pitch-accent languages.
>
> Piotr

Norwegian, Swedish, Lithuanian, Latvian: Is there a circum-Baltic
sprachbund? I don't know about Finnish or Estonian.