Re: Origin of Russian Free Accent

On 2005-01-28T18:18:40+03:00 Rob Haden <magwich78@...> wrote:

> I've been working on a new conlang in addition to Thalassan (which I plan
> to submit a grammar sketch to this list and Langmaker soon).  It has a
> free-accent system similar to Russian's.  Since Russian is (so far) the
> primary basis for this language's accentuation, I'm curious to know the
> origin of its free accent.  Can anyone help me here? :)
People, someone please comment on this.

From what I've seen, it's like asking what is the origin of languages
in general. The origin is Proto-Indo-European language or even
Pra-Boreal language.

Alexander
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