"The Linguistic Innovation Emerging From Rohingya Refugees." When I visited Bulgaria I tried to communicate in Serbian language with the Bulgars. Additionally, Norwegian assimilated a considerable amount of Danish vocabulary as well as traditional Danish expressions. Speakers of the Torlak dialect (any Torlak dialect) understand Serbo-Croation, Macedonian and Bulgarian with no problem, and can comprehand Slovenian as much as 80-90% within a few weeks of exposure. Most native speakers agree on MI. Ni Torlak uses a definite suffix, -ta/-to/-ti/-te/-ta (fem.sg/neu.sg/masc.pl/fem.pl/neu.pl), but less frequently than Macedonian does, and only in the nominative; it doesnt have a distance contrast as it does in standard Macedonian but it isnt even present in Serbian to begin with True science would involve scientific intelligibility testing of Slavic language pairs. Tradues em contexto de "mutuamente compreensvel" en portugus-ingls da Reverso Context : Os membros da equipa de verificao da Comisso podem comunicar com as autoridades e com o pessoal do operador da instalao numa lngua comum e mutuamente compreensvel. Once you learn Ukrainian, you can understand Polish, Czech, Belarusian, or other Slavic languages because they are quite similar. These recommendations are based on research into the mutual intelligibility of Germanic languages, conducted by Femke Swarte. The real reason that Slavs cant even understand each other: not enough vowels in their tongues! Much of the language has changed lots of Turkish loans have been dropped, plenty of standard Serbian terminology has made its way in but Ive had less of a communication issue in Kumanovo (north-eastern Macedonia) than Belgrade (capital of Serbia) back when I was but a young lad. I will also send you a copy so you can look over the Serbo-Croatian part and tell me if there are any errors. Anti-Ethnic Sentiments Ekavian Chakavian has two branches Buzet and Northern Chakavian. People from Lviv and larger cities and towns in western Ukraine have a slight clipped accent but they speak standard Ukrainian. In fact, people in the north of Poland regard Silesian as incomprehensible. The latter is heavily mixed with Shtokavian. Mutual Intelligibility of Languages in the Slavic Family. From some reason, the Hutsul, Lemko, andBoiko dialects of the Rusyn language are much more comprehensible to Russians than Standard Ukrainian is. While not usually considered mutually intelligible, theres also enough similarity between French and Italian that speakers of Portuguese may understand both of these languages. From the 1500s to 1900, a large corpus of Kajkavian literature was written. Hello can I use your comments in a paper I am writing? Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. What language is this? I admit that my prehistoric learning of Russian (1985-1990) made it easier for me to guess the meaning of words izpolzovana a saestvuvat (which have the same meaning in Russian), but I think that I could guess it even from the context. 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. In the case of Croatian and Slovene, the intelligibility is asymmetric, since Slovene participants could understand Croatian better than vice versa. December 2014. But the language isnt problem. This is also true of vocabulary and other aspects. However, many groups of languages are partly mutually intelligible, i.e. The Lemko dialect of Rusyn has only marginal intelligibility with Ukrainian. 50% Around year 550 Slovenians went west and Macedonians/Bulgars went south. 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? The written languages differ much more than the spoken ones. http://ifaq.wap.org/society/voweldeployment.html. Is Ukrainian more like . I dismiss some of the wilder conspiracy stuff out of hand. Classifications may also shift for reasons external to the languages themselves. But they are unaware of the fact that islander have a lot of latin but also old Croatian (Slavic) words instead of Turkish which are used by supossedly more Croatian tokavian speaker. In this week's Slavic languages comparison we talk about animals in Polish and Ukrainian. Needless to say, Polish is very familiar too, except its phonology, getting the gist of which is just a matter of some time. Slovenians have a very hard time understanding Poles and Czechs and vice versa. There is a group of Bulgarians living in Serbia in the areas of Bosilegrad and Dimitrovgrad who speak a Bulgarian-Serbian transitional dialect, and Serbs are able to understand these Bulgarians well. Interesting article 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. Upper Dnistrian is influenced by German and Polish. Routledge. It has a very high degree of mutual intelligibility with Galician (spoken in Northwestern Spain), which is a language thats sort of a cross between Portuguese and Spanish. Russian has 85% intelligibility with Rusyn (which has a small number of speakers in Central and Eastern Europe). Woof woof! I would hazzard to say that Polish and Czech languages are at minimum 50% Intelligible and comprehensible between Poles and Czechs (when spoken with normal pace ) and at least 60-70% . He is currently listed on the FBIs Most Wanted Terrorists list. Rusyn ~ Ukrainian . Its predecessor stage is known in Western academia as Ruthenian (14th to 17th centuries), in turn descended from what is referred to in modern linguistics as Old East Slavic (10th to 13th centuries). Slovak: 20% I have also friends from Central Macedonia (Prilep, Bitola) and I can tell how different they speak from the Skopjian dialect. Then she talks about the cards in the bags, I again understand everything, but at 0:47, another stream of unintelligible sounds is starting. These 4 main Polish dialects are: Greater Polish, which is spoken in the west of the country. In terms of pronunciation, Ukrainian or Southeastern Yiddish can be considered to occupy an intermediate position between Northeastern and Central Yiddish. The fact that such process works is almost a definition of mutual intelligibility for me. Nice to meet you, Robert; Ill make sure to read more of your articles now! You are probably talking about the study Mutual intelligibility between West and South Slavic languages? Femke Swarte studied the mutual intelligibility of twenty Germanic language combinations. If you speak Russian, you might be surprised at how much Ukrainian you understand. Chakavian actually has a written heritage, but it was mostly written down long ago. What if akavian person is from dalmatian coastal village which is now half tokavised and tokavian speaker is from Dalmatian city which still has some elements of akavian, ikavian yat and is full of romanisms? Finally, understanding mutual intelligibility gives you helpful insight into the history of a language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Aog4AJdQM. Polish and Russian while Slavic sounding to my ear and is maybe 5%-15% intelligible . So I understand Kajkavians and Slovenes except for a germanic package. 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. America paid us to hand over al-Qaeda suspects He estimated that Belarusian and Ukrainian were at least 80% mutually intelligible, accents and dialect aside, and that Russian was far . So here you have a case, when I could not understand everything, but I could grasp the meaning (at least). Slobozhan Ukrainian speakers in this region find it easier to understand their Russian neighbors than the Upper DnistrianUkrainian spoken in the far west in the countryside around Lviv. Spanish and Catalan have a lexical similarity of 85%. However, the Ser-Drama-Lagadin-Nevrokop dialect in northeastern Greece and southern Bulgaria and the Maleevo-Pirin dialect in eastern Macedonia and western Bulgaria are transitional between Bulgarian and Macedonian. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-YqET96OO0&fs=1&hl=en_GB]. I just didnt realize that when you talked about learning the other language you were actually referring to the errors inherent in doing a non-virgin ears MI study, and not conflating language learning with mutual intelligibility. In its written form Bulgarian is even more different than in its spoken form. Macedonian has 65% oral and written intelligibility of Bulgarian. More? I think it was mostly due to a learning few high frequency Polish words that are difficult for a Russian native speaker to understand. The problem is that most linguists are not interested in scientific intelligibility testing of language pairs. How close is Ukrainian language to Polish? I can give you an example of how I can read Bulgarian: His wife had never been to Poland and her language was completely foreign to me. 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. Instead Eastern Lach and Western Lach have difficult intelligibility and are separate languages, so Lach itself is a macrolanguage. .Interestingly, Ukrainians can understand the Russian language better than the Russians would understand the Ukrainian. It seems polish and bulgarian are the easiest for me to understand (save for bosnian, serbian, and crnogorski). Macedonian syntax and lexics are more similar to Serbian, even though structures of the language such as articles (no declensions) function as in Bulgarian. Regarding Russian/Ukrainian mutual intelligebility: most people who lived in Ukraine during the Soviet era and return there today say that modern Ukrainian differs greatly from the one spoken during Soviet times. Maybe its a lack of vocabulary, but I havent heard that word from someone personally yet. Serbo-Croatian and Russian have 10-15% intelligibility, if that, yet written intelligibility is higher at 25%. Serbo-Croatian speakers can often learn to understand Macedonian well after some exposure. This is a great boon to travelers and language learners. I have the hardest time to understand anything of Bulgarian, it sounds really fast and choppy but similar to Russian sometimes. I always aske her about whether she understands Bulgarian and Serbian and she claims Serbian is way closer to her language rather than Bulgarian. There are new scientific figures for Czech-Slovak, Czech-Serbo-Croatian and Czech-Bulgarian. Russian has a decent intelligibility with Bulgarian, possibly on the order of 50%, but Bulgarian intelligibility of Russian seems lower. 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. Download: The dialects of Ukrainian do not differ extensively from one another and are all mutually intelligible. Ukrainian much less comprehensible. . Theres a good reason for this: mutual intelligibility. Also sorry for my English. We in Serbia even had some comic movies that was making fun of south Serbian dialects (that are more related to Bulgarian and Macedonian) with very mocking or even rude comments for someone who make mistakes in the word cases. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11185-015-9150-9 In other respects I am happy to say I manage to keep my identity clear of any overt nationalist definitions Polish and Ukrainian mutual intelligibility question. How much Slovene can your average Chakavian speaker understand? Mutual Intelligibility of Languages in the Slavic Family. Problem is the spoken form, as Bulgarians dont speak as it is written, which is the case with serbian or croatian. Although the standard view is that Balachka is a Ukrainian dialect, some linguists say that it is actually a separate language closely related to Ukrainian. The claim for separate languages is based more on politics than on linguistic science. Bulgarian: 15% spoken , 30-40% written I can understand quite a bit of basic polish when it is spoken on the street, but their pronunciation is so weird its hard to notice sometimes. Nevertheless, Bulgarian-Russian intelligibility seems much exaggerated. 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. Macedonian: 50-60 % If you're a foreign student, studying russian, it's unlikely you'd be able to understand Ukrainian at all. Intelligibility between Balachka and Ukrainian is not known. Sign languages are independent of spoken languages and follow their own paths of development. Slovenians, Macedonians and Bulgars used to be one nation called Sklaveni and they were living in the south Hungary. In fact, I cannot often identify any words at all. Generally, when foreigners say speakers of a certain language speak too fast, speakers of that language can hear that fast speech just fine. During the last 20 years, Ukraine has tried to make the language norm as far from Russian as possible for nationalistic reasons. My email is on the Contact page. This implies that some of the high intelligibility between Slovak and Polish may be due to bilingual learning on the part of Slovaks. But the end of the sentence clarified these words. Polish ~ Kashubian . It should be noted that this division is conditional (actually: arbitrary) (and) names do not reflect the different languages, but only periods in the development of the Bulgarian language, which (have) detectable traits. non-Shtokavian dialects: Kajkavian, Chakavian and Torlakian) diverge more significantly from all four normative varieties. Czechs say Lach is a part of Czech, and Poles say Lach is a part of Polish. You also have these words? So I understood 100% But I admit that it was a relatively very easy text. 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). Although even if they stuck to Polish/Ukrainian, they'd probably still understand each other. My mother is a native Croatian speaker and she told me that serbian and croatian have very good intelligibility but however the grammar is very different.Comparing those two languages would be like comparing czech and slovakian. Czech: 10% . Russian is actually a little further, but most Belarusian speakers are bilingual (Bel-Rus) and most Ukrainian . These three languages have an 86% lexical similarity; that is, they share 86% of the same words. 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. If youve studied one language, you may very well understand some of anotheror have a much easier time learning it. About Slovak being two different unintelligible languages I highly doubt so. The literary language itself is no longer written, but works written in it are still used in public for instance in dramas and church masses (Jembrigh 2014). 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. If you take your 25 (supposedly from Novi Sad) and 90 from Nis, then we come to about 60 percent (from Serbian side). . http://www.network54.com/Forum/84302/thread/1284248981/last-1288620675/The+real+9-11+cover+up-+Political+hijacking++was+originally+aimed+at+Russia. I've ne. Probably, ja u da radim for Bosnians and Croatians sounds very Serbian. My gues. Ive not read em myself. PS More than half of Slovenian seems to be closely related to Kaikavian and Chakavian Croatian (and probably Old Shtokavian which is almost extinct). If I had to name a Slavic language worst for intelligibility, it would absolutely and positively have to be Bulgarian its phonetics are completely foreign (to the extent that sometimes in the back of my mind I think that it sounds barbarian and Turkish), as is its grammar (the vocabulary, however, is not, being probably 90% similar to Russian, making written Bulgarian pretty easy). The main difference is in the ortography. Is Ukrainian closer to Russian or Polish? True MI testing does try to find virgin ears that have heard little of the other language and speak little or none of it. Serbs until recently where still self titled Yugoslavs. Greg, Kaikavian is dialect of Slovenian language. In other cases, I had to rely on the context. Jembrigh, Mario. Mutual intelligibility between languages can make learning them much easier. There are many differences between Bulgarian and Russian speakers. You must namely take into consideration that the mutual understanding depends on many things if you are LISTENING or READING, WHAT are people talking about, HOW FAST they are speaking, and even WHO is speaking. The Serbo-Croatian vocabulary in both Macedonian and Torlakian is very similar, stemming from the political changes of 1912; whereas these words have changed more in Bulgarian. Macedonian and Bulgarian would be much closer together except that in recent years, Macedonian has been heavily influenced by Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian has been heavily influenced by Russian. Ukrainian and Russian only have 60% lexical similarity. Ive watched that movie on a croatian television with the croatian subtitle and understood that movie much much better, though Croatian also has a little differences.
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