[39] Several European languages, including English, have borrowed the word polje (meaning "large, flat plain") directly from the former Yugoslav languages (i.e. The Slavic languages are a relatively homogeneous family, compared with other families of Indo-European languages (e.g. Most languages of the former Soviet Union and of some neighbouring countries (for example, Mongolian) are significantly influenced by Russian, especially in vocabulary. Saami - more melodic version of Finnish. A large number of Slavic loanwords are found in the Gothic language: hlaifs (bread, from Proto-Slavonic hleb), katils (cauldron, from Proto-Slavonic kotel), biuþs (table, from Proto-Slavonic bliudo), kaupjan (buy, from Proto-Slavonic kupit), skeinan (shine, from Proto-Slavonic sianye), boka (letter, from Proto-Slavonic bukva), etc. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the Early Middle Ages, which in turn is thought to have descended from the earlier Proto-Balto-Slavic language, linking the Slavic languages to the Baltic languages in a Balto-Slavic group within the Indo-European family. Danish: beautiful, just beautiful. The Proto-Slavic language existed until around AD 500. Common Slavic had a complex system of prosody, inherited with little change from Proto-Indo-European. Catalan - Very close to Portuguese, but with the habit of not terminating the words with vowels. Other phonemic vowels are found in certain languages (e.g. the schwa /ə/ in Bulgarian and Slovenian, distinct high-mid and low-mid vowels in Slovenian, and the lax front vowel /ɪ/ in Ukrainian). Romanian - surprisingly similar to italian, but not with the same rhythm. Greek sounds like it could be Slavic althoughits also obvious that its not. English - very nasalized mixture of german with french words. cf. Ok, I'll go all in with comparisons to other languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The following is a very brief selection of cognates in basic vocabulary across the Slavic language family, which may serve to give an idea of the sound changes involved. Although Church Slavonic hampered vernacular literatures, it fostered Slavonic literary activity and abetted linguistic independence from external influences. This page was last edited on 18 September 2020, at 10:05. The following tree for the Slavic languages derives from the Ethnologue report for Slavic languages.
[9], A minority of Baltists maintain the view that the Slavic group of languages differs so radically from the neighboring Baltic group (Lithuanian, Latvian, and the now-extinct Old Prussian), that they could not have shared a parent language after the breakup of the Proto-Indo-European continuum about five millennia ago. The biggest change in this inventory results from a further general palatalization occurring near the end of the Common Slavic period, where all consonants became palatalized before front vowels. The situation in the Catholic countries, where Latin was more important, was different. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary. Ukrainian linguists (Stepan Smal-Stotsky, Ivan Ohienko, George Shevelov, Yevhen Tymchenko, Vsevolod Hantsov, Olena Kurylo) deny the existence of a common Old East Slavic language at any time in the past. W: Rocznik Slawistyczny, t. LV, str. [6] These three conventional branches feature some of the following subbranches: Some linguists speculate that a North Slavic branch has existed as well. This consisted of phonemic vowel length and a free, mobile pitch accent: The modern languages vary greatly in the extent to which they preserve this system. Loved this song. Kinda like a hardcore version of Samogitian dialect. Latvian sounds like lithuanian just I can't understand shit. Історія української культури", "Юрій Шевельов. This produced a large number of new palatalized (or "soft") sounds, which formed pairs with the corresponding non-palatalized (or "hard") consonants[23] and absorbed the existing palatalized sounds *lʲ *rʲ *nʲ *sʲ. The tripartite division of the Slavic languages does not take into account the spoken dialects of each language. More recent foreign influences follow the same general pattern in Slavic languages as elsewhere and are governed by the political relationships of the Slavs. Происхождение и ранняя история славян. For other uses, see. [34][35] Owing to the medieval fur trade with Northern Russia, Pan-European loans from Russian include such familiar words as sable. The extensive series of palatal consonants, along with the affricates *ts and *dz, developed through a series of palatalizations that happened during the Proto-Slavic period, from earlier sequences either of velar consonants followed by front vowels (e.g.
