Populations of Latvia and Lithuania in the context of some Indo-European and non-Indo-European speaking populations of Europe and India: insights from genetic structure analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in GeneticsThe aim of this study was to investigate the relationship among Lithuanian, Latvian, Indian, and some other populations through a genome-wide data analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Limited data of Baltic populations were mostly compared
Gintė Daniūtė +5 more
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Baltic and Finnic linguistic relations reflected in geolinguistic studies of the Baltic languages
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014 The article provides insight into the reflection of Baltic and Finnic language contacts in geolinguistic studies of the Baltic languages. These contacts have a rather long history, and are particularly intense between the Latvian language and Finnic ...
Anna Stafecka
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Tonogenesis and tone renewal in Baltic and Slavic languages
DiachronicaAbstract This article discusses the rise of new tones in Baltic and Slavic languages. It draws attention to the underlying mechanisms in the rise of these new tones and adduces typological parallels for some of the sound changes involved.
Tijmen Pronk
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A Few More Possible Traces of the Lost Language Chain of North-East Europe [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 There are numerous exceptional similarities between some of the east- and southward Finnic languages and Permic languages, in particular in case of the Veps, South-Estonian and Komi languages.
Ago Künnap
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Academic Writing in the Baltic States
Educare, 2021 In the project Bwrite (Academic Writing in the Baltic States: Rhetorical Structures through Cultures and Languages), we aim to address the lack of an empirically grounded holistic understanding of non-Anglophone writing traditions by mapping the ...
Anni Jürine +6 more
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R-loci and Distributivity: Insights from Czech Sign Language
Studies in Polish Linguistics, 2022 This article describes a distributivity pattern in Czech Sign Language. The pattern is signed via a reduplication at the R-loci and resembles the distributivity behavior of the binominal each that is ...
Mojmír Dočekal, Hana Strachoňová
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Fundamental study on the sounds of standard Baltic languages: phonetic and phonological differences
Lietuvių Kalba, 2020 The article discusses the most important differences in the sound structure of contemporary Lithuanian and Latvian standard languages, scientific and practical benefits of a fundamental comparative instrumental sound research, reviews possible further ...
Jurgita Jaroslavienė +1 more
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Overview: The Baltic Earth Assessment Reports (BEAR) [PDF]
Earth System Dynamics, 2023 Baltic Earth is an independent research network of scientists from all Baltic Sea countries that promotes regional Earth system research. Within the framework of this network, the Baltic Earth Assessment Reports (BEARs) were produced in the period 2019 ...
H. E. M. Meier +5 more
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K proischozhdeniju nazvanij soli v finno-permskich jazykach [On the Origin of the Word for ’Salt’ in Finnic-Permic Languages]; pp. 161-176 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2015 The Finnic-Permic word for âsaltâ, traditionally reconstructed as *salÉ (*sala) and explained as an Aryan loanword (cf. Skr. salilá- âsalty water, seaâ < PIE *sal- âsaltâ) is reconsidered. First, the Proto-Finnic-Mordvinian form, when based
V. V. Napol´skich
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Anmerkungen hinsichtlich einer baltischen Herkunft von osfi. *vana *’Hochwasser, Überschwemmung’ [On the Baltic Origin of the Finnic *vana *’flood, inundation’] [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2021 The possible Baltic origin of the Finnic word *vana âflood, inundationâ is discussed: Baltic *tvana-: Lithuanian tvãnas, tvãnai pl âdeluge of a river, inundation, flood; a large number (of); abscessâetc.
Lembit Vaba
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