Journal of the International Phonetic Association · 2009 · 29 citations · 3 references
Language StudiesLinguisticsComparative LinguisticsPhoneticsPhonologyComparative PhonologyLanguage FamiliesSlavic LinguisticsContrastive FeaturesSlavic Phonetics
Estonian belongs to the Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric language family and is closely related to Finnish. It has about one million native speakers in Estonia and about 150,000 elsewhere in the world. In phonetics, Estonian is probably best known for its three degrees of contrastive quantity: short (Q1), long (Q2) and overlong (Q3).
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The Analysis of Low Accentuation in Estonian
Eva Liina Asu, Francis Nolan · Language and Speech · 2007 · 15 citations