Re: NATLANG ruki-rule in Slavic
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 18, 2003, 18:14 |
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Joe wrote:
> From: BP Jonsson
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> > BTW how easy/hard is Bulgarian to read for a Russian?
> > The same order as Danish/Swedish I would suspect.
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> I'd say more like Danish/German. After all, Bulgarian is a South Slavic
> language, and Russian is an East Slavic one(or have I got that wrong?). A
> better analogy for the Danish-Swedish-Nowegian triangle would be
> Belarusian-Ukrainian-Russian, I think.
Ok. My two kopecks in addition. Russian being my L1, and Ukrainian - L1.5 :) ,
so understanding both written and spoken Belarusian is quite easy for me. As for
Bulgarian, its common Church Slavonic heritage helps very much (as Pavel already
mentioned). Taking into account that I learnt some Bulgarian when a schoolboy
(10-12 lesson from a primer), reading Bulgarian is more or less ok. But I
understand only occasional words, when it is spoken ;)
~~~~~~Yitzik~~~~~~