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1 online resource (402) |
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Cover -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- The Circum-Baltic Languages -- Part 1: Survey of selected Circum-Baltic languages and language varieties -- The Latvian language and its dialects -- The Lithuanian language and its dialects -- Russian varieties in the southeastern Baltic area -- Swedish dialects around the Baltic Sea -- The Finnic languages -- Part 2: Early history f the Circum-Baltic languages -- The origin of the Scandinavian languages -- Baltic influence on Finnic languages -- Part 3 Contact phenomena in minor Circum-Baltic languages -- The role of language contact in the formation of Karelian, past and present -- Syntactic code-copying in Karaim -- Yiddish in the Baltic region -- The North Russian Romani dialect -- On some Circum-Baltic features of the Pskov-Novgorod (Northwestern Central Russian) dialect -- Name index -- Language index -- Subject index |
| Summary |
The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European -- Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Ur |
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Linguistic geography.
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Language and languages
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Linguistic geography
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| SUBJECT |
Baltic Sea Region -- Languages
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Europe -- Baltic Sea Region
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Dahl, Östen.
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Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria.
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| ISBN |
1282161792 |
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9781282161795 |
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9789027297280 |
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9027297282 |
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