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. I use Wikipedia as a reference for new languages that Wikipedia misses, like the 4 Croatian languages. Czech and Slovak are simply dialects of this one tongue. For example the word najgolemata (the biggest) written in Serbian latin means najvea in Serbian, but I somehow know what golem/golema means, but when I hear this ta (definite article) in the end of the word, that sounds Macedonian to me more than golema, prefix naj (makes superlative form) is the same in Serbian. Grammar, on the other hand, is a different matter altogether. In my experience, its quite easy. do is the same verb (prim/pri/pri/primo/prite/pre vs. pravam/pravi/pravi/pravime/pravite/pravaat; as opposed to Serbian raditi) Thus, this exposure gives them an edge when trying to understand Czech. General Musharraf says that Sheikh, who orchestrated the abduction, was recruited by MI6 while he was studying at the London School of Economics and sent to the Balkans to take part in jihad operations there. It is also said that West Slovak (Bratislava) cannot understand East Slovak, so Slovak may actually two different languages, but this is controversial. So if you believe the fantastic conspiracy theory that 19 hijackers some have been discovered to be still alive were able to hijack 4 commercial planes for hours uninterrupted armed only with boxcutters and crash them into US largest and with the Pentagon most well guarded which has its own missile defence and radar system buildings on US? That is a particularly ugly version of nationalism brewing in your vicinity. In other words, Ukrainian speakers can often understand Russian, while Russian speaker doesn't understand Ukrainian, especially Russian speakers from outside Ukraine. I would like to know if anyone could confirm that you could indeed . cheers I have the hardest time to understand anything of Bulgarian, it sounds really fast and choppy but similar to Russian sometimes. Have every heard of Dubrovnik dialect? Re: Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Mutual Intelligibility. As soon as one gets even a very moderate amount of exposure, comprehension improves, even between such geographically distant languages as Polish and Serbian I remember staying in Montenegro and a Pole buying bread and a Montenegrin could still communicate with each other speaking at a slow-enough pace. Also there have been some czecho-slovak shows in TV lately like Czecho-Slovak Idol or Talent with judges and competitors from both countries and I have never heard of anyone who would complain about not understanding. But then the second older guy from Bosnia (Filipovi) appeared on the screen and wow! Serbians and Bosnians not so such. 50% If you speak Russian, it will be easier for you to understand other Slavic languages, which include Ukrainian, Belorussian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Slovene. I will also say that it is a fact that a British intelligence linked terrorist Anas al-Liby recruited by MI6 to kill Gadaffi in 96 was involved in the African Embassy bombings. Exposure doesnt count. Croats say Macedonian is a complete mystery to them. "Proto-Slavonic,". The old Dniestrian/Galician speech is largely confined to rural areas. 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. Russian. Therefore, for the moment, there are five separate Croatian languages: Shtokavian Croatian, Kajkavian Croatian, Chakavian Croatian, Molise Croatian, and Burgenland Croatian. A number of native speakers of various Slavic lects were interviewed about mutual intelligibility, language/dialect confusion, the state of their language, its history and so on. Molise Croatian is not intelligible with Standard Croatian. Far Northeastern Slovak (Saris Slovak) near the Polish border is close to Polish and Ukrainian. I must confess that as a Czech, I understand only little, what the Macedonian reporter is saying, and when I was listening to the first guy from Bosnia (Izetbegovi), I was often lost, understanding only slightly more, maybe 20-30%. Ukrainian has 82% intelligibility of Belarusian and Rusyn and 55% of Polish. Score: 4.1/5 (68 votes) . Polish: Ukrainian and Belarusian (both partially; moreover, . Here are three critical ways in which Bulgarian and Russian speakers differ. No, you cannot. Part of the problem between Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian is that so many of the basic words be, do, this, that, where are different, however, much of the rest of the vocabulary is the same. Communication about such things is significantly impaired at this level. But still Slovene and Dalmatian akavian speaker can talk if they stick to old slavic part of their respective languages. Robert Lindsay, Independent Journalist: l Talk about Things You're Not Supposed to Talk About. But islanders more often say Mi povidamo na nau or domau. Briefly put, mutual intelligibility is when speakers of one language can understand a related language to some degree. However, the Torlak Serbians can understand Macedonian well, as this is a Serbo-Croatian dialect transitional to both languages. Southern Slovak on the Hungarian border has a harder time understanding Polish because they do not hear it much. Is there an agreed-upon standard? Much of the claimed intelligibility between Czech and Slovak was simply bilingual learning. In my opinion Czech and Slovak mutual intelligibility is not heavily exaggerated but actually very underrated(or some opposite word of exagerated, sorry for my poor english). In other cases, I had to rely on the context. Needless to say, Polish is very familiar too, except its phonology, getting the gist of which is just a matter of some time. Belic) maybe do not understand Macedonian so well as Macedonian the Serbian language do (because of the according to you Bilingual learning . Conclusion: I've ne. Chakavian has 82% intelligibility of Kajkavian. 3. Toj e oficialnijat ezik na Republika Balgarija i edin iz 23-te oficialni ezika na Evropejskija sajuz. Go back to your kennel. Yet some say that the subtitles are simply put on as a political move due to Ukraines puristic language policy. In fact, I cannot often identify any words at all. Ive done tests with my friends shtokavians-only (or monolingual Croats regarding the situation here) and it was very interesting. I also conclude that in terms of straight linguistic science anyway, Czech and Slovak are simply one language called Czechoslovakian. Polish uses Latin letters, just like English. Given that Polish and Russian belong to different groups under the same language family, we can deduce that these two languages share a lot of similarities but also have many differences. Basically, you only hear a series of consonants with hardly recognizable vowels. Serbians often say radiu and its very similar to Croatian raditi u or radit u, but sometimes Serbians say ja u da radim or even u da radim without ja (I), because u is first singular form of the verb hteti and ja is needless, but its very rare and common for southern Serbian dialects and also very very irregular in official Serbian, but that is very similar to official Macedonian. Polish has 22% intelligibility of Silesian, 12% of Czech, 6% of Russian, and 5% of Bulgarian. I have no idea, what Sledva da se otbelei, e tova means. Not sure where did you get more similarity between Boyko dialects and Russian language? . Polish lacks full intelligibility of Silesian, although this is controversial (see below). Italian is partially mutually intelligible with French, Catalan, Sardinian, Spanish, Ladin and Romanian. http://www.network54.com/Forum/84302/thread/1284248981/last-1288620675/The+real+9-11+cover+up-+Political+hijacking++was+originally+aimed+at+Russia. Problem is the spoken form, as Bulgarians dont speak as it is written, which is the case with serbian or croatian. Additionally, some Arabic speakers may be familiar with Egyptian Arabic through the media, so they may rely on this to bridge any language gaps. Polish and Ukrainian mutual intelligibility question. Why not look em up on his site. The Rusyn language is composed of 50% Slovak roots and 50% Ukrainian roots, so some difficult intelligibility with Ukrainian might be expected. 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. 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. Serbo-Croatian (Shtokavian) has 55% intelligibility of Macedonian (varies from 25-90%), 27% of Slovenian, 25% of Slovak, 20% of Ukrainian, 13% of oral Bulgarian and 25% of written Bulgarian, 10% of oral Russian and 22% of written Russian, 10% of Czech, and 5% of Polish. Ukrainians can understand Russian much better than the other way around. As such, spoken Danish and Swedish normally have low mutual intelligibility,[2] but Swedes in the resund region (including Malm and Helsingborg), across a strait from the Danish capital Copenhagen, understand Danish somewhat better, largely due to the proximity of the region to Danish-speaking areas. by Christine Ro. .Interestingly, Ukrainians can understand the Russian language better than the Russians would understand the Ukrainian. It differs from the rest of Silesian in that it has undergone heavy Czech influence. Also, danes and swedes have a hard time understanding each other, but they can read the others language quite well. Russian has 85% intelligibility with Rusyn (which has a small number of speakers in Central and Eastern Europe). Ja u da radim is more common to Serbian speakers but ja u raditi is officially more correct. There are some dialects around Buzet that seem to be the remains of old Kajkavian-Chakavian transitional dialects (Jembrigh 2014). It is very strange when some words are not understood, although the communication is possible. And o shifts to u. Could you please explain what you mean by language and intelligibility and hopefully remedy this failure of the original text? However, Chakavian magazines are published even today (Jembrigh 2014). Borg, Albert J.; Azzopardi-Alexander, Marie (1997). It has been massively updated with a lot of new research from controlled scientific intelligibility studies. Foreign languages arent always as foreign as youd expect. But reading a Bulgarian text is surprisingly easy, because the phonology and vocabulary are very similar. They sometimes say that youngsters do not but that is just a myth. Paul McGrane. This is because colloquial Ukrainian is closer to the Ukrainian spoken in the Soviet era which had huge Russian influence. For instance, akavian Croatian is not intelligible with Standard Croatian. I have also friends from Central Macedonia (Prilep, Bitola) and I can tell how different they speak from the Skopjian dialect. Russian, Polish, Czech, and Ukrainian materials are available. The German influence is more prominent in the west; Polish influence is greater in the east. Id like to know about written mutual intelligibility, because, about spoken mutual intelligibility, there are people from portugal that cannot understand brazilians and vice-versa, though they speak the same language. This stuff is not all that controversial. Czech has 82% intelligibility of Slovak (varies from 70-95%), 12% of Polish and 5% of Russian and Bulgarian. Kajkavian is a dialect of Slovenian language. Zona Zamfirova is the movie in a Serbian dialect, but I dont understand it as same as I dont understand Macedonian or even more so, that is more like Bulgarian with the hard vowels. Sorry for so much criticism it is just my Czech/Moravian opinion on the subject. Russian. Slovak 50 % spoken, 70 % written True science would involve scientific intelligibility testing of Slavic language pairs. I am a native Spanish speaker but my girlfriend is Macedonian. I can grasp only something in the sense that these four periods have different names and that they dont designate different languages (delene e uslovno i imenata ne otrazjavat razlini ezici), but only periods of the development of Bulgarian (samo periodi v razvitieto na balgarskija ezik), with typical changes or features (za koito se otkrivat charakterni belezi). This is not the case, as all figures were derived from estimates by native speakers themselves, often a number of estimates averaged together. Its specific czech and many foreiner has problem spelling it. . ", "English in Scotland a phonological approach", "Mutual Intelligibility of Closely Related Languages within the Romance language family", "How Konkani Won the Battle for 'Languagehood', "Algumas observaes sobre a noo de lngua portuguesa", Romanian language Britannica Online Encyclopedia, "UCLA Language Materials Project: Language Profile", "Uzbek | the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies", "Soviet Dungan nationalism: a few comments on their origin and language", "The Linguistic Characteristic Of Esan Language: Towards Its Empowerment and Development", "Mutual intelligibility of spoken Maltese, Libyan Arabic, and Tunisian Arabic functionally tested: A pilot study", "Gdzie "sicz", a gdzie "porohy"?! (j/k) In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. Slovak has 91% intelligibility of Czech. Scientific intelligibility studies of Czech and Slovak have shown ~82% quite high but still low enough for them to be closely related separate languages and not dialects of one language. 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. Nevertheless, writing continues in various Kajkavian dialects which still retain some connection to the old literary language, although some of the lexicon and grammar are going out (Jembrigh 2014). Czech completely and utterly incomprehensible. People observing conversation between Cieszyn Silesian and Upper Silesian report that they have a hard time understanding each other. In addition, Balachka language associations believe it is a separate language. The intelligibility of Polish and Russian is very low, on the order of 5-10%. 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. can take anywhere. Ukrainians and Belarusians understand each other's languages with no problem. There are new scientific figures for Czech-Slovak, Czech-Serbo-Croatian and Czech-Bulgarian. Je to oficiln jazyk v Bulharsk republice a jeden z 23 oficilnch jazyk v Evropsk unii. Because of all of this, tokavian speaker has a hard time understanding fast talking akavian speakers. A different dialect is spoken in each town. 12 Dec 2016 #221. 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). > Intelligibility problems are mostly on the Czech end, because they dont bother to learn Slovak, while many Slovaks learn Czech. The revelation comes from General Musharrafs memoir, In the Line of Fire, which begins serialisation in The Times today and will further embarrass the White House at a time when relations between the US and Pakistan are already strained.. Pakistani intelligence chiefs are concerned that General Musharraf may jeopardise their relationship with British intelligence agencies after claiming that a convicted terrorist was once an MI6 informer. theres a macedonian TV program called Vo Centar, hosted by a macedoanian journalist who goes around the Balkans and interviews prominent names in politics etc. Russian only has 60% intelligibility of Balachka. The distance of Slovene may seem unlikely, but I think that it is still rather optimistic, because Czech and Slovene are quite distant, despite geographical closeness. Nice article, but I think there is a difference between spoken mutual intelligibility and different languages. Or they will say, Well, that is about 70% our language. If it is a dialect, they will say, That is really still our language. Most Croatian linguists recognized Kajkavian as a separate language. While the two share a similar grammar system and some vocabulary words, . The grammars of sign languages do not usually resemble those of spoken languages used in the same geographical area; in fact, in terms of syntax, ASL shares more with spoken Japanese than it does with English. Balgarskijat ezik e pluricentrien ezik ima njakolko kniovni normi. There is one factor they dont know about the internet. An inherent pure inherent intelligibility test would involve a a speaker of Slavic lect A listening to a tape or video of a speaker of Slavic Lect A. When you find out it is a separate language, you ask for %, and they often tell you! The more the better. There are numerous intelligibility tests out there that work very well, or you can just ask native speakers to give you a %, and most of the honest ones will tell you; in fact, they will often differentiate between oh that is our language, they speak the same language as us, for dialects and then no, that is not our language, that is different, and they do not speak our language for separate languages. Bosnian and Montenegrin are also just dialects of Serbian language. Only Croatians try so hard to press differences. but what if person is from island and speaks heavy akavian and tokavian speaker is real tokavian like from Slavonia (North Eastern Croatia). BULGARIAN: Balgarskijat ezik e naj-rannijat pismeno dokumentiran slavjanski ezik. Re: Rus/Ukr America paid us to hand over al-Qaeda suspects It is quite true that Macedonian speakers (even today) are switching to Serbian (although there is a resistence among some speakers of Macdonian) on informal situations. If, for example, one language is related to another but has simplified its grammar, the speakers of the original language may understand the simplified language, but less vice versa. http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/sheikhmedia.htm 1996 . So give these mutually intelligible languages a second look. There is much nonsense floating around about Serbo-Croatian or Shtokavian. Recently a Croatian linguist forwarded a proposal to formally recognize Chakavian as a separate language, but the famous Croatian Slavicist Radoslav Katii argued with him about this and rejected the proposal on political, not linguistic grounds.
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