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| Maverick4Eva Newbie United States Joined 5419 days ago 2 posts - 1 votes | Message 1 of 4 02 June 2010 at 7:17am | IP Logged |
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How similar are the Georgian and Russian languages? Does anybody here know?
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| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5338 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes  Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 2 of 4 02 June 2010 at 7:41am | IP Logged |
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Though they are close to each other as nations, the languages are nearly completely different.
Russian is a Slavic language, Georgian is a Caucasus language. Their alphabets are different entirely. Regarding loan-words, I'm sure Russian words have found there way into Georgian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Aquila123 Tetraglot Senior Member Norway mydeltapi.com Joined 5305 days ago 201 posts - 262 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: Finnish, Russian | Message 3 of 4 02 June 2010 at 11:15am | IP Logged |
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Georgian was Joseph Stalin's mother thongue, and he is still highly revered at thos places.
So if you learn Georgien, you can read the poetry of Joseph Stalin in its original language. Yes - he was a habil poet, in addition to being a dictator. Seurprizingly many dictators have been skilled in artistic crafts of various kind. Also Hitler - that was a better painter than generally admitted. But alas - even more of them have had a habit of composing horrible propaganda poems. But Georgian is a highly synthetic or polysynthetic language that seems cool to learn. Edited by Aquila123 on 02 June 2010 at 4:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| michi Nonaglot Newbie Austria Joined 5300 days ago 33 posts - 57 votes Speaks: Dutch*, German, French, English, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese Studies: Turkish, Arabic (Written), Serbo-Croatian, Indonesian, Japanese | Message 4 of 4 16 June 2010 at 10:25am | IP Logged |
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[QUOTE=Aquila123] Georgian was Joseph Stalin's mother thongue, and he is still highly revered at thos places.
Also Hitler - that was a better painter than generally admitted. QUOTE] I have no idea how good Stalin's poems where but I was very impressed by the paintings of Hitler I have seen. However for awhile he was able to survive by paintings postcards that were probably sold by a Jewish fellow-inmate (!) in the asylum for homeless men in the Meldemannstraße. A few years ago I saw a performance of the satyric play "Mein Kampf" by the Hungarian author George Tabori in exactly the same house which was still an asylum for homeless. The homeless in the play were played by real homeless. I have been a neighbour of Hitler myself! I have lived on the adress Stumpergasse 39, where Hitler lived when he tried to be a painter. However I wish they had admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. I would have spared mankind a lot of trouble if Hitler had stuck to his artistic ambitions. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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