Thanks to Pavel and Jan for their input in my question about Russian
and Ukrainian!
Pavel Iosad wrote:
> You might want to do a search in the archives for 'surzhik', which is
> the transitional Russo-Ukrainian zone. The Byelorusso-Ukrainian
> transitional zone in the Poles'je has *very* interesting dialects, but
> unfortunately they are quickly dying out :-( not the least because of
> emigration caused by the repercussions of Chernobyl'.
Thanks for the tip; I'll do that.
Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
> 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.
This leads me to another question, in the opposite direction: is
Polish at all intelligible with Czech or Slovak?
Cheers,
Eamon