Re: OT: semi-OT: bilingual communication

Hello,

> I have that impression, too. But the same is true between
> Ukrainian and Polish
> (but NOT between Russian and Polish. I have seen Ukrainian
> defined once as "a
> polonized East Slavic language". Lexically, I think it has
> more in common with
> Polish than with Russian.
Umm, not really. That may be the impression, but if you do a statistical
count for, say, lexemes descended from Proto-Slavic, you'll get a
definitely East Slavic language (i.e. -oro-, -olo-, not -ro-, -lo-, lack
of depalatalization of the yat', etc. etc.)

> If I'm informed correctly, the Polesian dialects are closer
> to Ukrainian than
> bo Belorussian, and most speakers don't have a trace of
> national consciousness (in neither direction).
Say rather they have a 'poleshchuk' identity.

Pavel
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