Privacy Policy Russian and Ukrainian is considered to be relatively mutually intelligible. nordics.info In Eastern and Southern Ukraine people speak Russian. ), Greek, Slavonic (Polish, Russian, etc. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Yes, which languages do you think are the most mutual intelligible? But, if you only want to speak one Slavic language, Russian is more widely spoken. And this is just one case of many ones, personally I'm more used to spanish, and without even knowing too much of it I'm still able to understand a full conversation with a native. Iceland is the only Scandinavian country without a minority language; all the 338,000 or so natives speak Icelandic. Youre asking about something calledmutual intelligibility (in other words, when two language speakers can understand one another despite speaking different languages) in Linguistics. Are Slavic languages mutually intelligible to a certain degree? The situation for the Sami language is quite different. The West Slavic language is contained within a relatively small geographic area but has experienced a somewhat different history. Things of Latvia: Accidental knowledge of the Russian language Without any knowledge of eachother language it was pretty much obvious what they meant. WebMutual Intelligibility among the Slavic Languages by Robert Lindsay The mutual intelligibility (MI) of the languages of the Slavic family is an interesting topic because What Languages Are Mutually Intelligible With Serbian? So, when youre learning the Polish alphabet, all you have to pay attention to are the special accents and the pronunciation. The modern Ukrainian alphabet consists of 33 letters. What Are Mutually Intelligible Languages? The Answer, and
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