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Polish - the most similar language?
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Kosh
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24 August 2006 at 9:44am | IP Logged

munus wrote:

Slovakian is much closer to Polish than Ukrainian. I have seen websites in Slovakian and Ukrainian. I understood much more from Slovakian.

Yes, I agree with you. Polish is the second most transparent language for Slovak speakers (after Czech). So it might be the same from the point of view of Poles.
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Julie
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14 September 2006 at 5:58am | IP Logged

1. Slovak
2. Czech
(both from the same West-Slavic group)
3. Ukrainian (the closest from East-Slavic group)

I don't know where I should put Sorbian languages. Low-Sorbian is quite transparent for me. I guess, they're after Slovak and before Czech, or after Czech.
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munus
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14 September 2006 at 6:04pm | IP Logged

I saw a Wikipedia in both sorbian languages and I think it should be before Czech on your list... but this is only my opinion...
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SamD
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05 October 2006 at 8:39am | IP Logged

jeff_lindqvist wrote:

No, Sorbian.

I wonder if it would be less confusing to refer to this language as Wendish or Lusatian.
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kyknos
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23 November 2009 at 2:23pm | IP Logged

SamD wrote:

jeff_lindqvist wrote:

No, Sorbian.

I wonder if it would be less confusing to refer to this language as Wendish or Lusatian.

It is even more confusing in Czech, because Serbian is 'srbština' and Sorbian is 'lužická srbština' in Czech - the nouns are identical. Therefore, many people think that Sorbian is just some dialect of Serbian :) I also prefer 'Lusatian' or 'lužičtina', but most people use 'lužická srbština'.

jesska wrote:

Oddly, I find Czech difficult to understand, though I can read it quite well. Think it's the stress (on the first syllable in Czech?)

I am a native speaker of Czech (and partially Slovak) and I find Polish (or even Czech dialects heavily influenced by Polish) difficult to understand. For example Upper Sorbian or Serbo-Croatian are much more transparent for me.

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