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Are Czech and Slovakian separate langs?
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Medulin
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28 February 2012 at 1:03am | IP Logged

Chung wrote:

On the other hand, Standard Slovenian and Standard Croatian aren't that close and the most common way for Croats to narrow the gap is to pick up certain non-standard features specific to the region around the Croato-Slovenian border.

Slovenian and Croatian are just like Norwegian and Swedish,
it's very easy for me to understand Slovenian and I have never studied it ;)
We Croats consider our dialects very important, just like people in Norway,
and basically no one in Croatia speaks the standard language, which exists only as written language, again like in Norwegian.
Only Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina speak the standard Croatian, but this is not my country!
Most cartoons in Croatian movie theaters are dubbed in dialects!

Edited by Medulin on 28 February 2012 at 1:06am
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LaughingChimp
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29 February 2012 at 3:29am | IP Logged

Cavesa wrote:

1.The diglossia is quite overestimated. There are many people who speak nearly standard
Czech, there are dialects which use the word endings from standard Czech but differ in
other ways etc. If we are living in diglossia than so are the English speakers. And
speakers of any other language because the colloquial and "real" language is hardly
ever the same as the standard one.

The only people speaking close to standard Czech are Moravians who are unsure that their dialect will be understod. IIRC there is some northeastern bohemian dialect that uses grammar close to standard czech, but that's an insignificant minority, most people speak common czech with minor variation.

Chung wrote:

I don't recall anything as colloquial as já byla for byla jsem.

I'm pretty sure they are both acceptable in standard Czech.
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