From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2025-03-22, Christian Weisgerber  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.   
      
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   Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
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