Question by Raptor Jesus: Does Russian have a degree of mutual intelligibility with any other languages?
If so which? I used to know a Russian girl and Slovakian girl who sometimes spoke a mix of the 2 languages to eachother. Is Polish similar to Russian? What languages are close enough to Russian that they could understand atleast the gist of a conversation?
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Answer by Rafal
Russian is as Slavonic Language as Polish. There are lots of similarities but lots of differences too 🙂
Close enough to Russian… only languages from the same group of Slavonic: Ukrainian, Latvian etc.
Edit:
“Lechitic languages” – in my country this term does not exist
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nonik says
mutual slavic newspaper
Ange says
My fiance, who speaks Polsih, and his Russian friend speak to eachother in their own languages and basically understand eachother.
Angelic Christoforos says
Russian is mutually intelligible in varying degrees (depends on each individual) with Belorussian and Ukrainian. Some Russians can understand these languages, while others don't.
I used to live in Russia and therefore I speak (better to say spoke, perhaps) Russian, although I'm not a native-speaker, and not even what I'd call fluent in the language. I can get the gist of Bulgarian when I hear it being spoken or I read it. When I read Czech I can understand the overall ideas, but I don't understand it as a spoken language. When I hear or read other Slavic languages, I can catch some words but can't understand what is really being said.
Erik Van Thienen says
They are Slavic languages, all descended from Proto-Slavic, and all influenced by Old Church Slavonic.
Linguistically they are grouped as follow :
East Slavic : Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
West Slavic :
– Czech and Slovak
– Lechitic languages: Polish, Pomeranian/Kashubian, Silesian
South Slavic :
– Western subgroup : Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian and Slovene.
– Eastern subgroup : Bulgarian and Macedonian