http://www.izviestija.info/izviestija/, I was born in Canada to a Serbian family and speak Serbian so I am a good control as I was never formally educated in Serbian and its grammar. I am afraid you are not right because if you take Serbian dialects till Nis, then they are very mutually intelligible with Macedonian! They sometimes say that youngsters do not but that is just a myth. WORD. 99% of people in Ukraine are bilinguals who essentially speak and learn both Russian and Ukrainian from birth (although depending on the region, ones prevailence over the other varies). Ukrainian has 62% lexical similarity with Russian but 70% with Polish, which isn't high enough for mutual intelligibility with both Russian and Polish, but Poles can certainly understand Ukrainian much better than Russian, and Russians can understand Ukrainian much better than Poles. This is great. Its vocabulary has lots of common words with all of Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish, so it's sort of mutually intelligible with all of them. Good post, OP. The Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family is known for its languages being relatively closely related. Yes of course.
LINGO | Gaston Dorren, language writer One more thing is that Serbian has, for example, two versions of the future case, with da (that) and verb in some person form, 1st in this case: ja u da radim (I will work) and ja u raditi where raditi (to work) is an infinitive. Slovenians have a very hard time understanding Poles and Czechs and vice versa. Jen. He is currently listed on the FBIs Most Wanted Terrorists list. Young Czechs and Slovaks talk to each other a lot via the Internet. There can be various reasons for this. Mutual Intelligibility of Languages in the Slavic Family. Russian. Ikavian Chakavian has two branches Southwestern Istrian and Southern Chakavian. In contrast, there is often significant intelligibility between different Scandinavian languages, but as each of them has its own standard form, they are classified as separate languages.
Background Information - Department of Slavic, East European - UCLA Many Poles insist that Silesian is a Polish dialect, but this is based more on politics than reality.
PDF Mutual Intelligibility Among the Slavic Languages A Slovak from Bratislava can and does understand eastern Slovak dialects, he might have to tune his ear a bit, but I know because Ive talked to many members of my family about this and other Slovaks and they all say it sounds really stupid and a few words are different but they definantly understand. Older people who rembember federation understand everything. Ukrainians seems closer to Slovak than Russian but some words in Russian are almost exactly the same in Slovak but in Ukranian they are completely different. This stuff is not all that controversial.
Yulia Skadchenko on LinkedIn: #litranslators #russiantranslator # My father once read an article in polish and he said he understood almost everything, but when its spoken he said about 60%. They are essentially the same language and even somebody with virgin ears can understand anybody almost perfectly, as long as he has half a brain. Spoken Bulgarian is very difficult to understand for other Slavs due to phonology and unique syllable stress. What percentage of Ukraine speaks Polish? Additionally, Norwegian assimilated a considerable amount of Danish vocabulary as well as traditional Danish expressions. It is also said that West Slovak (Bratislava) cannot understand East Slovak, so Slovak may actually two different languages, but this is controversial. I also run a YouTube channel where I try to put the differences within the Croatias borders online since many whove seen them were surprised (or shocked). Furthermore, not only does this app provide small lessons that can be expanded into full-on courses, but it also allows you to interact with native speakers of the target language. Some do in fact argue that Ukrainian shouldn't be considered as an East-Slavic language at all, being that it has more in common with West-Slavic languages such as Polish, Czech and Slovak than it . https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8A%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BA Portuguese also has a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Spanish. I use Wikipedia as a reference for new languages that Wikipedia misses, like the 4 Croatian languages. And when islanders respond back in akavian they are puzzled: What? Its a nasty drug, and I hear its addicting. At least not in general if so, it might depend on the school. According to Ethnologue, there are more than 7,000 languages in the world, with some being more difficult to learn than others. Masovian, which is spoken throughout the central and eastern regions of Poland. But I can tell you this. Pretty accurate I think. Vedle hlavn, pouvan v Bulharsku, existuje jet makedonsk norma, kter tak (?) We speak them too. There are many differences between Bulgarian and Russian speakers. Spanish and Catalan have a lexical similarity of 85%.
Mutual intelligibility of Russian and Ukrainian - Factual Questions Belarussian and Ukrainian have 85% similar vocabulary. Since the breakup, young Czechs and Slovaks understand each other worse since they have less contact with each other. The only big one i disagree with your breakdown is serbian/croatian vs bulgarian. Northern (Istrian and Kvarner) akavian is closer to kajkavian and Slovene then Southern akavian is ( I understand 95%+ n). Not only that, but it is not even fully intelligible with the Eastern Slovak that it resembles most. However, lexical similarity focuses on exclusively overlapping vocabulary to determine similarity between languages. This is the first time that this has been done using just . But akavian being archaic it has old slavic package. Give me a figure in % for the Rusyn if you would. However, Russian is only 74% mutually intelligible with spoken Belarusian and 50% mutually intelligible with spoken Ukrainian. Likewise with Polish vs Czech, and Slovenian vs Standard Croatian (these pairs are the most commonly mistaken as mutually intelligible). Pei Mario (1949). wovel a shifts to o not shits hahhaha sorry. Thanks for the information about Eastern Slovak I will incorporate it. For instance, West Palesian is a transitional Belarussian dialect to Ukrainian. I think (as a native Serbian speaker from south eastern Belgrade) the main difference between Serbian and Macedonian is that Macedonian doesnt have cases and have definite articles as well. As a native Russian speaker, I noticed that my understanding of Polish went from 20% to 70% in a matter of hours when watching a film in Polish with subtitles. For instance, in 1932, Ukrainian g was eliminated from the alphabet in order to make Ukrainian h correspond perfectly with Russian g. After 1991, the g returned to Ukrainian. Ni Torlak has six vowels the standard /a e i o u/ and a reduced schwa // thats found where a strong yer once used to be, as in
dog and sadness (this vowel has merged with /a/ in Serbian, but the two yers were kept as separate reflexes /e o/ (merging with those full vowels) in Macedonian) with phonemic and morpho-lexical stress that has plenty of grammatically conditioned shifts. I speak tokavski croatian (and can read and understand serbian (both cyrillic and latin) and can adapt my croatian to be more serbian grammatically and with vocabulary) and just recently I had a conversation where I spoke croatian and the other person spoke polish. akavian differs from the other nearby Slavic lects spoken in the country due to the presence of many Italian words. We also participate in other affiliate advertising programs for products and services we believe in. Could you please explain what you mean by language and intelligibility and hopefully remedy this failure of the original text? This is simply not the case. The intelligibility of Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian is highly controversial, and intelligibility studies are in order. Ukrainian and Belarusian are pretty much mutually intelligible (source: I am a poet in Belarusian, I go to poetry festivals in Belarus quite often and there are no interpreters for the Ukrainian poets invited to international events). Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian have 10-15% oral intelligibility, however, there are Bulgarian dialects that are transitional with Torlak Serbian. BULGARIAN (transferred to the Latin script): algarskijat ezik e indoevropejski ezik ot grupata na junoslavjanskite ezici. Kajkavian is a dialect of Slovenian language. Rather than 95%, or 85%. It forms a single tongue and is not several separate languages as many insist. The Macedonian spoken near the Serbian border is heavily influenced by Serbo-Croatian and is quite a bit different from the Macedonian spoken towards the center of Macedonia. Conclusion: She stated that Czech and Slovak are mutually intelligible and that the main differences between the two languages is that Slovak has somewhat of a Hungarian inflluence, and Czech has more of a German and Latin component. Interesting when one considers that Ukrainians do not even consider Rusyn a real language. Russian, Polish, Czech, and Ukrainian materials are available. The base of Molise Croatian was Shtokavian with an Ikavian accent and a heavy Chakavian base similar to what is now spoken as Southern Kajkavian Ikavian on the islands of Croatia. Contents1 Can Slovenians understand Croatian?2 What languages are mutually intelligible with Croatian?3 What is the closest language to Slovenian?4 Which two . Hello Mr Lindsay, Both me and her had a much easier time following the Rusyn dialects than standard Ukrainian (although they were by no means completely comprehensible). For example, British Sign Language (BSL) and American Sign Language (ASL) are quite different and mutually unintelligible, even though the hearing people of the United Kingdom and the United States share the same spoken language. And the 25% is very low. This phenomenon is called asymmetrical mutual intelligibility. I dont know about Macedonian (havent ever heard or read it) but it seems to be like in the middle between Serbian and Bulgarian (just like frisian is in the middle of dutch and english). CZECH: Bulharsk jazyk je indoevropsk jazyk ze skupiny jihoslovanskch jazyk. While the two share a similar grammar system and some vocabulary words, . . Other factors that one has to keep in mind is recent (and not so recent, too) history and its linguistic implications on speakers for instance, Slovaks older that about 20 dont have much trouble understanding Czech because Czech was pretty intrusive if not dominant in official and intercommunal use in Czechoslovakia until its collapse. Even the basic words are almost the same. An individual's achievement of moderate proficiency or understanding in a language (called L2) other than their first language (L1) typically requires considerable time and effort through study and practical application if the two languages are not very closely related. The President outlines the role played by a former London public schoolboy, Omar Sheikh, in the kidnap and murder of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter, in February 2002. Hello, the difference of course is completely arbitrary, but above 90%, most speakers regard their comprehension as full or say things like I understand it completely. Below 90%, it starts getting a lot more iffy, and down towards 80-85%, people start saying things like, I understand most of it but not all! and people start regarding the other tongue as possibly a separate language. My parents (and naturally me when I was child) make a lot of mistakes in the word cases and it means that they are (for the speakers from more west Serbian and also Croatian region) the lower social group, that they are not educated enough or that they are unread, and why dont Macedonians in their native language too, especially in ex Yugoslavia. I dismiss some of the wilder conspiracy stuff out of hand. [8], However, others have suggested that these objections are misguided, as they collapse different concepts of what constitutes a "language".[9]. I thought this is Croatia! How mutually intelligible are Ukrainian and Russian? : r/ukraine Three different methods were used: a word translation task, a cloze test and a picture task. This difference is because Bulgarian is not spoken the same way it is written like Serbo-Croatian is. London Times, 25 September 2006 Salute from Czech republic. You cannot simply separate the articles from the words during a regular conversation. However Serbian, Bosnian, and Croatian are not like Czech and Slovak. Cheers brothers and sisters! But despite similarities in grammar and vocabulary and almost identical alphabets, they differ sharply in many ways and are not mutually intelligible. #5. Often the two languages are genetically related, and they are likely to be similar to each other in grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, or other features. Can a Russian speaker understand Polish? The person did not understand everything what I wrote. Written intelligibility is often very different from oral intelligibility in that in a number of cases, it tends to be higher, often much higher, than oral intelligibility. Slovak-Czech MI tests out at 82% in studies, which seems about right. Bulgarian more comprehensible than standard Ukrainian. It has many Hungarian words, archaic Slavic words and words of an unknown origin (at least to me). Czech-Polish is not at 12% anymore, a new study has found it is 32%. non-Shtokavian dialects: Kajkavian, Chakavian and Torlakian) diverge more significantly from all four normative varieties. Its true that Slavic languages are not intelligible in the taking-the-first-person-from-the-street-and-making-them-listen-to-a-random-conversation way, that is, an average Slavic speaker with an untrained ear and little to no exposure to other Slavic languages will have difficulty understanding other Slavic languages. Its often said that all Slavic languages are mutually intelligible with each other. Although Chakavian is clearly a separate language from Shtokavian Croatian, in Croatia it is said that there is only one Croatian language, and that is Shtokavian Croatian. most speakers of one language find it relatively easy to achieve some degree of understanding in the related language(s). I have a newer version of the paper that I can give in which I changed some of the things you are complaining about. They give you strict % figures, and it is pretty amazing. Intelligibility among languages can vary between individuals or groups within a language population according to their knowledge of various registers and vocabulary in their own language, their exposure to additional related languages, their interest in or familiarity with other cultures, the domain of discussion, psycho-cognitive traits, the mode of language used (written vs. oral), and other factors. akavski has considerably more italian influence, due to many of the people there speaking italian (vicinity to italy) and the presence of istriot language and the former presence of dalmatian language. The German influence is more prominent in the west; Polish influence is greater in the east. An academic paper has been published making the case for a separate Balachka language. (Jim Morrison). Slovene has some commonalities with the West Slavic languages. .Interestingly, Ukrainians can understand the Russian language better than the Russians would understand the Ukrainian. I have also friends from Central Macedonia (Prilep, Bitola) and I can tell how different they speak from the Skopjian dialect. More properly, their speech is best seen as closer to Macedonian than to Bulgarian or Serbo-Croatian. However, there are dialects in between Ukrainian and Russian such as the Eastern Polissian and Slobozhan dialects of Ukrainian that are intelligible with both languages. possession is indicated most frequently using dative pronouns, unlike Serbians tendency to use possessive pronouns in greater frequency Its vocabulary and grammar has enough similarities for Poles, Ukrainians and Belarusians to understand each other well, whereas Russians understand only will recognise separate words. Ukrainian language, formerly called Ruthenian or Little Russian (now considered pejorative), Ukrainian Ukrans'ka mova, East Slavic language spoken in Ukraine and in Ukrainian communities in Kazakhstan, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Lithuania, and Slovakia and by smaller numbers elsewhere. I can read and understand a lot of Bulgarian in written form, its basically old slavic , many such words are simply obsolete or archaic in modern serbian, but i do get the gist of any written article. Most people in Slovenia learn Serbian language so it is hard to estimate the real mutual intelligibility between Slovenian and Serbian language. What Are Mutually Intelligible Languages? Ukrainian and Belarusian are mutually intelligible and in general very close and have some common features like synthetical future, but Russian speakers (who know only Russian) only partially understand Ukrainian/Belarusian. Czech 20 % spoken, 40 % written Ni Torlak vowel reflexes are otherwise in line with standard Serbian and Northwestern Macedonian, deriving nuclear /u e i e u r/ from / y * *l *r/; some Torlak dialects towards Kosovo or Bulgaria instead have [l ~ l] for /l/ (giving [v()l(:)k] where Serbian normally has [v:k]) but none in my vicinity. Because mutual intelligibility comes in varying degrees, its hard to determine how much overlap there needs to be for something to be classified as such. I would like to know if anyone could confirm that you could indeed . Ponaszymu appears to lack full intelligibility with Czech. However, Bulgarian-Russian written intelligibility is much higher. Kajkavski it seems has changed less than akavski. The real reason that Slavs cant even understand each other: not enough vowels in their tongues! ????? I always aske her about whether she understands Bulgarian and Serbian and she claims Serbian is way closer to her language rather than Bulgarian. Russian is also 85% mutually intelligible with Belarusian and Ukrainian in . These 4 main Polish dialects are: Greater Polish, which is spoken in the west of the country. some things in this article are heavily exaggerated. I also understand more of other Slavic languages then neotokavian speakers do. The more the better. She doesn't speak any Polish so it's going to be an interesting challenge. They exist, but not in such a degree to render them unintelligible. Ukrainian 15 % spoken, 25 % written Heres his interview with Bosnian figures, and Bosnian is part of B/H/S landscape Although even if they stuck to Polish/Ukrainian, they'd probably still understand each other. Slobozhan Russian can also be called Kuban Russian or Balachka. Polish uses Latin letters, just like English. To deal with the conflict in cases such as Arabic, Chinese and German, the term Dachsprache (a sociolinguistic "umbrella language") is sometimes seen: Chinese and German are languages in the sociolinguistic sense even though speakers of some varieties cannot understand each other without recourse to a standard or prestige form.
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