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Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, I'm Polish and it looks Czech/Slovakian to me.
I think this is because we look for properties that are foreign to us, and skip properties that we familiar with when trying to understand the language. So, for example, you didn't notice some things taken from Polish, because you already know them, but you noticed things that look Czech to you, and thingie didn't notice Czech things, but noticed Serbian ones.
After looking at the grammar and dictionary, I find it much more similar to Czech than I thought after looking at just samples. Dictionary has quite a lot of Czech words, you'd only have to apply some rules to make it look more "modern" :-) (ija -> [i]e, throw out most of trailing i's, ični -> cký, g -> h…)
Re: Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days
#24Does anyone know of a similar artificial language to unify the Scandinavians?
Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic are similar enough that it should be possible to create a language that could be passably understood by all speakers -- call it "skandiska"...?
Re: Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days
#25Not if it's written in cyrillic.
But otherwise, except for a few totally unknown words, it quite readable for me (.si).
Re: Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days
#26Does anyone know of a similar artificial language to unify the Scandinavians? Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic are similar enough that it should be possible to create a language that could be passably understood by all speakers -- call it "skandiska"...?
As a Norwegian, I have no problems understanding both Swedish and Danish. That's mostly correct the other way around as well.
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#27I am Bulgarian and I find that very hard to read. Much harder than Russian or Serbian. Many of the phonemes could be simplified to be made more universal. It feels very influenced by Polish, though, so I'd probably be easier for Central Europe Slavic countries.
Also Bulgarian, I can read it with no problems. "Tastes" like Croatian to me though. Definitely does not feel like Polish.
Re: Slovianski-language that a Slav should be able to learn in 7 days
#28Does anyone know of a similar artificial language to unify the Scandinavians? Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic are similar enough that it should be possible to create a language that could be passably understood by all speakers -- call it "skandiska"...?
A linguist would probably say that Scandinavia already has a common language, and that Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are mere dialects of the same Scandinavian language. They are considered different languages mainly for political and historical reasons, but since they are mutually intelligible (with the possible exception of drunk Danes) "Scandinavian" is really a single language from a linguistic perspective.
Icelandic is a different story, of course. Thankfully, though, the Icelandic speak English rather well...
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#29Does anyone know of a similar artificial language to unify the Scandinavians? Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic are similar enough that it should be possible to create a language that could be passably understood by all speakers -- call it "skandiska"...?
As a Norwegian, I have no problems understanding both Swedish and Danish. That's mostly correct the other way around as well.
Ah. I didn't realize that Scandinavians already understand each other so well. I'm a Finn who studied mandatory 6 years of Swedish at school, yet I can't understand a word of Danish...
I wish they would teach us something more useful than Finland's regional Swedish dialect and accent -- it only has a few hundred thousand native speakers, of whom 95% speak Finnish anyway :(
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#30That's funny. I am fluent in Russian and can read/understand and speak some Polish and that text is understandable as-is.
So at least one way it works really well.