Shared Vocabulary in Slavic Languages? (Philological Room) Language Learning Forum

Shared Vocabulary in Slavic Languages?
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Finnish^C1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish	Message 33 of 34 04 December 2012 at 8:06pm \| IP Logged
	Yeah apparently short for мад'ярський. 1 person has voted this message useful
William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6273 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French	Message 34 of 34 19 December 2012 at 7:27pm \| IP Logged
	In the 1990s I was staying at a campsite in Moravia, went for a walk and became lost. I saw a signpost with the words K Zamku. I knew and know little Czech, but guessed on the basis of Russian that it meant "to the castle", and the campsite was next to a castle. I followed the sign and found the castle, and then the campsite. Although not to be relied on too much, the vocabulary relationships among Slavic languages are indeed close. Probably roughly on a par with the Latin-derived Romance languages, or perhaps if anything a little closer to each other than the Romance family's members are. I was idly flicking through a Slovak-German dictionary just now and was struck by how much written Slovak vocabulary I understood, triangulated as it is between my pretty good knowledge of Russian and my "heritage" Polish. (Edited to add an additional remark) Edited by William Camden on 19 December 2012 at 7:33pm 2 persons have voted this message useful

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