tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5935232044258447718.post3858446617038530360..comments2023-07-11T14:06:25.673+03:00Comments on Tartu - City of Good Food: Sämmi Grill, and SohvaMingushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10129025788427961454noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5935232044258447718.post-11850966629877925892011-11-02T17:18:24.368+02:002011-11-02T17:18:24.368+02:00There just wasn’t that much that restaurant-owners...<i>There just wasn’t that much that restaurant-owners could buy in terms of diversity of ingredients.</i><br />... annnd there were no restaurant owners, of course. Everything was state owned, remember? A huge monopol.notsuhttp://notsumaja.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5935232044258447718.post-80612849487242778292011-11-02T17:11:13.981+02:002011-11-02T17:11:13.981+02:00Oh, and also, Baltic half of Balto-Slavic hasn'...Oh, and also, Baltic half of Balto-Slavic hasn't always been so tiny. Part of Baltic languages have gone extinct. Kind of same thing happened to Celtic languages - it was a huge branch and where are they now?notsuhttp://notsumaja.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5935232044258447718.post-77246616349915202362011-11-02T17:08:48.925+02:002011-11-02T17:08:48.925+02:00More about Baltic languages and Latvians (sorry, I...More about Baltic languages and Latvians (sorry, I'm a linguistics nerd) - if we are to believe the hypothesis of Künnap, Pusztay and Wiik trinity (much disputed hypothesis, I know, but intriguing nonetheless), then Baltic, Slavic and Germanic branch - all three of them - have a common feature: finnic influence/substrate (as opposed to Basque influence on Celtic and Iberian branch).<br /><br />Even if we don't care much for this controversial hypothesis, it's still generally accepted that Baltic is a separate branch of Balto-Slavic (if we are to think in language-tree terms, then we could imagine a generic Balto-Slavic protolanguage of which both Baltic and Slavic branch emerged).<br /><br />And then, Latvian looks as a Baltic language spoken by Finnic people to a linguists eye: a pidgin-Baltic language, if you wish.<br /><br />As for the genetics, I once peeked into a study about different blood types in Estonia - according to that, Estonia appears as something of a melting pot - all the blood types of our neighbours are represented here, but nowhere further (so there are Finnish blood types present here that are missing in Latvia and vice versa; Russian blood types that are not found in Sweden and vice versa). A satirist once expressed the same idea in short: "everybody has raped our women".notsuhttp://notsumaja.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5935232044258447718.post-81291748233236233822011-10-24T21:30:03.073+03:002011-10-24T21:30:03.073+03:00I also took another look and this source stated th...I also took another look and this source stated that Baltic-Slavic is one branch of Indo-European languages, so that Baltic languages make up one (tiny) half and Slavic another (huge) half. But Baltic languages are not considered to be the branch of Slavic languages. More like equal partners. Some suggest other division, but it splits them even further and does not make Baltic languages a branch of Slavic languages. But I'm not a specialist and maybe these linguists have new data. If so, I don't argue with that. <br />To Mart: sorry, the comment was about the main entry.***https://www.blogger.com/profile/00715269572116028409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5935232044258447718.post-11179335174270820752011-10-23T16:25:05.315+03:002011-10-23T16:25:05.315+03:00As far as I thought, Latvian is a Baltic language,...As far as I thought, Latvian is a Baltic language, which is a branch of the Slavic languages, which are Indo-European. A tableful of linguists sitting here with me now agree. But I'll double-check on that...thanks!Mingushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10129025788427961454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5935232044258447718.post-16815980921213289662011-10-23T15:48:05.274+03:002011-10-23T15:48:05.274+03:00I don't really see how my post could be interp...I don't really see how my post could be interpreted as saying that Latvians are Slavs. The Slavs in this case are, of course, Russians.Marthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02497407025282383128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5935232044258447718.post-10138903821782755972011-10-22T21:03:38.426+03:002011-10-22T21:03:38.426+03:00Maybe I don't get it right here, but in your n...Maybe I don't get it right here, but in your non-Estonian paragraph it kind of seems that you think Latvian is a Slavic language. It isn't. It's a Baltic language and one of Indo-European languages.***https://www.blogger.com/profile/00715269572116028409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5935232044258447718.post-78245466830633821792011-10-21T15:52:56.065+03:002011-10-21T15:52:56.065+03:00I get that the genetics part was lighthearted, but...I get that the genetics part was lighthearted, but here's a review of an interesting study on the matter (with pretty graphs): http://alturl.com/33bem<br /><br />In a nutshell: Estonians are still very much different from both the Slavs and the Balts while Finns are even further removed.<br /><br />And the beef in Sämmi Grill is indeed excellent. I can attest to that.Marthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02497407025282383128noreply@blogger.com