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Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 4:28
PM
Subject: RE: [phoNet]
Lithuanian/Russian: FIXED
Piotr wrote:
Latvian is less archaic than
Lithuanian? It depends. In what respect? Literary Latvian retains the old
pronunciation of Baltic *a:, it reflects the original
Baltic intonations more faithfully than Lithuanian does .
Most Lithuanian dialects of Aukštaitija
retain this *a: as well (just drive 50 km. to the north of
Vilnius to get convinced). Colloqiual Latvian has completely neutralized
all the intonations and can be considered as a stress language now (just come
to Riga).
I know; I was
referring to the conservative norm.
Piotr