south slavic, from what i hear, is easier for czechs to understand but is the hardest for russians to understand. in general west slavs have the most intelligibility imo. i could have easily lived in yugoslavia as there was a big slovak community there... kinda :angery:
its a big reason why pan slavism was a thing and kinda still is a thing. borders feel a bit arbitrary. a lot of pan slavic stuff happened in prague cause of this apparent mutual intelligibility, made it easy for us to translate. people would flit from slavic country to slavic country all the time. tito for example went all over russia, yugoslavia, bulgaria... all before he became leader. its not too hard to talk to other slavs, so its also why communism became so big too. a lot of things ripple out from russia simply because they have they most slavic speakers
i always was for a zapadoslavia as there was a yugoslavia... assuming it was all communist. it was a bit of a headscratcher to me that that did not occur after ww2 considering how linked czech slovak and polish partisans were
i can only assume it was something the poles didnt want... at that point the soviet union had all the east slavic countries in yugoslavia had all the south besides bulgaria... czechoslovakia obviously had our mix. its a bit strange to me. we're so small now that it actively hurts us in regards to imperialism. but we all speak the same language almost, if we were all united things would be better. then we could even teach people a general slavic dialect in schools to help with basic language skills
Bulgarian is weirdly easiest to understand for Russians, despite being the farthest Slavic language in terms of grammar, because Russian took a lot of influences from Church Slavonic, which was basically Old Bulgarian with Greek spice.
thats interesting. i just heard from a russian friend that he couldnt understand slovene or serbian at all really but i could understand the simple words quite readily. though i did grow up near a border region so its probably just easier for me to pidgin things by nature of that
I speak Ukrainian and Russian and for me Belorussian, Polish and Bulgarian are quite understandable, while in other Slavic languages I only recognize the simplest words.
i had no impression whatsoever of mutual intelligibility in slavic languages, this is very interesting :very-smart:
does this go for south slavic too?
south slavic, from what i hear, is easier for czechs to understand but is the hardest for russians to understand. in general west slavs have the most intelligibility imo. i could have easily lived in yugoslavia as there was a big slovak community there... kinda :angery:
its a big reason why pan slavism was a thing and kinda still is a thing. borders feel a bit arbitrary. a lot of pan slavic stuff happened in prague cause of this apparent mutual intelligibility, made it easy for us to translate. people would flit from slavic country to slavic country all the time. tito for example went all over russia, yugoslavia, bulgaria... all before he became leader. its not too hard to talk to other slavs, so its also why communism became so big too. a lot of things ripple out from russia simply because they have they most slavic speakers
very detailed response thank you :CommiePOGGERS:
i always was for a zapadoslavia as there was a yugoslavia... assuming it was all communist. it was a bit of a headscratcher to me that that did not occur after ww2 considering how linked czech slovak and polish partisans were
:sicko-wistful: zapadoslavia certainly would've helped :poland-cool:
i can only assume it was something the poles didnt want... at that point the soviet union had all the east slavic countries in yugoslavia had all the south besides bulgaria... czechoslovakia obviously had our mix. its a bit strange to me. we're so small now that it actively hurts us in regards to imperialism. but we all speak the same language almost, if we were all united things would be better. then we could even teach people a general slavic dialect in schools to help with basic language skills
Bulgarian is weirdly easiest to understand for Russians, despite being the farthest Slavic language in terms of grammar, because Russian took a lot of influences from Church Slavonic, which was basically Old Bulgarian with Greek spice.
thats interesting. i just heard from a russian friend that he couldnt understand slovene or serbian at all really but i could understand the simple words quite readily. though i did grow up near a border region so its probably just easier for me to pidgin things by nature of that
I speak Ukrainian and Russian and for me Belorussian, Polish and Bulgarian are quite understandable, while in other Slavic languages I only recognize the simplest words.