Re: TV: Padomju džinsi

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.

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