Re: Beauty of Old Norse (was Re: New to the list)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 17, 2000, 4:57 |
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Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
> AFAIR, Old Norse was a pitch accent language, like Latin.
Actually, Latin was a stress accent language. Ancient Greek was pitch
accent.
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