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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: TV: Padomju =?UTF-8?Q?d=C5=BEinsi?=
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:41:56 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-22, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

> It turns out that the "Latvian" dialogue actually flips back and
> forth between Latvian and Russian.  Since I know neither language,
> simply distinguishing the two is already an effort for me.  (Akanye
> helps.)

Actually, I think it isn't so much akanye specifically as that
Russian generally reduces unstressed vowels.  Latvian not so much.
And now that I look at Wikipedia's "Latvian phonology" page, I see
that Latvian distinguishes vowel quantity even in unstressed
syllables.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de