Re: Latvian Language Older Than Lithuanian?

<lorad474@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Eugene Holman wrote:
The most
obvious Finno-Ugric substratum feature of Latvian is fixed
word-initial
dynamic stress, something totally alien to Lihuanian, which retains
the
typical Indo-European type of mobile pitch accent.

lorad474@xxxxxx wrote:
False assertion which is unproven.
Here is a different opinion from a professional:

"FOURTH - Latvian is the ONLY language in Indo-European
in which ALL words are stressed on the FIRST SYLLABLE,
and where later more modern "sing-song" effects are not present
and where stress or accent has not been transferred to
interceding or closing syllables carrying less than
the initial important meaning of the word."

Er, I think this professional is saying the same thing as Eugene.
Lithuanian words are stressed on various syllables, according to
complicated rules, and there are three types of stress (short, falling
or rising) whereas Lettish just hits the first syllable all the time ?
like the Finno-Ugrics who taught them to do so. Same thing happened in
Czech due to Magyar influence.

Prove that Baltic had three genders.

It has been proven. Maybe Eugene will point you to URLs. There is a
remnant neuter adjective used in Lithuanian: Ðiandien ðalta. (stress
on ðal-) means 'Today cold' and comes from 'ðalto', as opposed to
feminine ðalt? - stress on final syllable. A little example of what
difference variable stress makes.

19. AN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH GROUP LED BY SCIENTISTS FROM THE LATVIAN
HISTORY INSTITUTE'S ANTHROPOLOGY LAB RECENTLY ANNOUNCED THAT THEY HAVE
FOUND A "BALTIC GENE", A SLIGHT MUTATION IN A GENE DETERMINING BLOOD
GROUPS. THE GENE, OFFICIALLY CALLED "LANGSTEINER WIENER B" (LWB), IS
MOST PREVALENT IN LATVIANS (5.9% OF THE POPULATION), FOLLOWED BY
LITHUANIANS (5.7%), AND ESTONIANS (4%). IN ADDITION, RELATIVELY HIGH
PRESENCE OF LWB WAS ESTABLISHED IN FINLAND, NORTHWEST REGIONS OF
RUSSIA, POLAND, AND IN SWEDISH POPULATION OF GOTLAND. ONLY AN
INSIGNIFICANT CONCENTRATION OF LWB WAS FOUND IN WESTERN EUROPE AND
THERE WAS NO TRACE OF THE GENE IN ASIA AND AFRICA."

Also known as the Finnish gene. So Latvians have a lot of Finnish
blood.



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