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| Tupiniquim Senior Member Brazil Joined 6087 days ago 184 posts - 217 votes  Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, Russian | Message 1 of 23 17 August 2009 at 1:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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... that carry the same degree of mutual intelligibility that exists between Swedish and Norwegian?
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6276 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 2 of 23 17 August 2009 at 1:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Czech and Slovak. I have seen Slovaks watching Czech TV with no obvious comprehension problems. The reverse may also be possible.
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| Tupiniquim Senior Member Brazil Joined 6087 days ago 184 posts - 217 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, Russian | Message 3 of 23 17 August 2009 at 1:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks. Do you know if there are any others, maybe South slavic, or East slavic, or even across sub-branches? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Aeroflot Senior Member United States Joined 5606 days ago 102 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 4 of 23 17 August 2009 at 2:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I spent about two months in Croatia and everyone from the Yugoslavia 'area' would come and converse with no problems. Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian are pretty much the same exactly thing, and Slovenian pretty close too, but I couldn't give you any examples since I forgot everything.
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| PaulH3 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5583 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 5 of 23 17 August 2009 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Extending the continuum southwards from Serbia, Macedonian is somewhere between Serbian/Croatian and Bulgarian, and close enough to the latter for there to be mutual intelligibility. Some people in Bulgaria consider Macedonian to be a variety of Bulgarian.
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| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6038 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 6 of 23 17 August 2009 at 3:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
Bulgarian and Macedonian are arguably the same language. Together with Serbian they form what might be called a "dialect continuum", with Macedonian being the middle ground. Although Serbian is in a different branch of the language family it is a close relative. I can follow the lyrics of Serbian music (they tend not to be too complicated ;) and can participate in simple verbal exchanges. I'm not sure about Croatian and other South-Western Slavic languages. Edited by Sennin on 17 August 2009 at 4:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6276 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 7 of 23 17 August 2009 at 4:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I feel, linguistically, three of the languages mentioned are really one - Serbo-Croat. The differences are political, not linguistic, although politics are hard to separate from this kind of discussion.
Bulgaria has occupied Macedonia in the past, during both world wars, and the classification of Macedonian as a Bulgarian dialect reflects the idea that the territory where it is spoken is Bulgarian, though I have no doubt the languages are close. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7160 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 8 of 23 17 August 2009 at 4:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
For Czechs older than 30 the reverse case is common. Younger Czechs today (i.e. children) however tend to have more difficulty than their parents with understanding Slovak.
People who're fluent in dialects of northwestern Croatia (i.e. Kajkavian) usually have few problems understanding Slovenian. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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