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Circum-Baltic Languages

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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 Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact phenomena in languages. The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from a typological, areal and historical perspective, trying to relate the intricate patterns of similarities and dissimilarities to the societal background. In Volume I, surveys of dialect areas and language groups bear witness to the immense linguistic diversity in the area with special attention to less well-known languages and language varieties and their contacts.

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ISBN: 9789027230577
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Author: Östen Dahl, Maria KoptjevskajaTamm
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 402 pages
Series: Studies in Language Companion Series
Genres: Linguistics