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Re: Origin of Russian Free Accent

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Saturday, January 29, 2005, 3:03
Rob Haden <magwich78@...> wrote:
> Hey everyone! > > 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? :)
It appears to be basically inherited from proto-Indoeuropean. I'm afraid I don't have any better details offhand though. *Muke! -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/