I'm originally from a slavic country and we eat a shitload of cabbage rolls. Cabbage roll = Sarma in our language. Anyway, one of my closest friend is a huge fucking tren goblin and my dad overheard when we were on the phone and he told me he would bring sarms. So we had to cook today:
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Are there non-loanwords in Slavic languages that begin with letter A?

Hello,

I'm not sure if this is the right sub for this question, if not, please guide me.

I've read somewhere (truth be told, I was looking for pictures from TV series santa Clarita diet, and person wrote the comment) that there are no word starting with letter a, that all of them are just loan word. I am interested in knowing is this true? If it isn't, what are some of the Slavic words starting with letter a.

Thank you

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Russians and Inter-Slavic language?

How many of you Russians have heard of the Inter-Slavic language?

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what is your favourite and least favourite slavic language and why? i’m genuinely curious
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Why are voiced consonant cluster phonemes (e.g. /zd, zg, zb, zv, gv, gz, vd/ etc.) almost exclusively found in Slavic languages compared to their voiceless counterparts, which appear more evenly among other languages (e.g. /st, sk, sp, sf, kf, ks, ft/ etc.) ?

Likewise, why is there a disproportionate amount of other clusters that are rarely used in other languages/branches besides Slavic (e.g. /ml, mr, sr, zr, zl, dl, dɲ, ʃk, tʃk/ etc.) ?

I've noticed how easy it is to create faux slavic-sounding words because of these specific phoneme combinations. I could create a fake word like /zdra.Ι²a.va.ja/ and most people could recognize it as being of Slavic origin but something like /stra.na.fa.ja/ becomes more ambiguous after devoicing it. Is there any reason for this or is it just coincidental ?

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A map of Slavic peoples and languages divided into South, East & West Slavs
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How common is it for Europeans who speak a Latin based language to mix their language’s vocabulary when speaking a Slavic based language, and vice versa?

In the US, we have a lot of people of Latin American heritage who either primarily speak Spanish or come from a Spanish speaking house hold, and end up using alot of Spanish in their English. Which we generally refer to as Spanglish. Most Americans know enough basic Spanish vocabulary to understand the meaning/context, most of the time.

Would a French person generally understand a Russian speaking French but mixing Russian vocabulary? Would a polish person understand enough Italian if an Italian were to speak polish and mix Italian? So on and so forth.

Also, when an American movie, show, or game have a character or setting that mixes English and Spanish a lot, how is this translated in languages that aren’t English or Latin based? Do translations assume Slavic speakers may not know enough Spanish and translate that as well or do they keep it to stay true to the character?

Sorry for my ignorance, I’m just genuinely curious.

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What is a good Slavic language to learn for researching more in Rodnovery?

My first language is English, I have had to take a lot of Spanish classes to graduate, but as I move into my final one I want to switch to a different language. Preferably a Slavic one. If I went by my blood then I would learn Croatian or Slovenian, but I feel like for learning more about practicing Rodnovery, spirits, Gods, etc it would be more beneficial to learn Polish or Russian. Any thoughts or opinions on this matter?

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Would Knowing Romanian Make it Much Easier to Learn Other Romance Languages? As well as Slavic Languages? How about Latin?

I live near Romanians and one the female member has been teaching Romanians for free at a building because my town has enough Romanians that there is the official Church of their country has a local building here (apparently a national one where everything is done in Romanian and all books are in that language, etc).

Their eldest Aunt is a very warm person and has told me to feel free to go to the local boarding building to learn lessons despite not being Romanian or a member of their national Church and she even agreed to do a few private lessons to me because (well I guess its partly because a few time I just helped a few members of the community out of the blue in different situations, though the girl is a pretty warm person herself in an Audrey Hepburn charming sortaway).

So I am gonna go ahead take the offer because I have nothing else to do in my free time and I admit I never took another language before. In fact I was gonna order some Dutch CDs to learn the language my fav celeb Audrey Hepburn but I decided to shelf that plan after receiving the next door neighbor's offer.

So TIL Romanian is a Romance Language. So does that mean knowing it would make French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and a whole other bunch of obscure language I just learned today from across Europe much easier to learn?

In addition reading on Wiki the language has a strong Slavic influence esp in word count. Enough I seen a few Redditors calling if a hybrid of Russian and Italian. So does that mean learning the language would put me a step up in learning Russian and Polish and other Eastern European languages and Balkan tongues such as Serbian?

Last but not lest a few posts online not just here in reddit but various blogs and forums, etc says Romanian is the one Romance Language today that is closest to Latin after Sardinian and some other old languages across Italy before the Unification. So would it be a building block for getting into Latin?

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What language is easier to learn for a non-slavic person such as myself, Bulgarian or Serbian?

So I decided I want to learn a slavic language, but I can't decide between Bulgarian or Serbian. Which one do you think is easier in terms of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and access to learning materials?

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Poles, which Slavic language other than Polish you understand the best?

Not including Macedonian and Bulgarian because i don't have enough options and people from there have told me they can understand no Polish, so i imgaine you don't undesrtand them either

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In your opinion/experience, what's the hardest Slavic language to learn, and why?

(I can only put 6 options in the poll so I had to group similar languages and omit minority ones like Kashubian or Sorbian, sorry for that. The discussion will take place in the comments anyway I hope)

I've been inspired to make this post by a comment saying that, as a native speaker of a South Slavic language, he found Russian to be way harder than his mother tongue.

I know this has already been asked but a poll might be more visual.

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Has Italian been heavily influenced by another language family (like French with Germanic, Romanian w/ Slavic, Spanish w/ Arabic)?
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Grzywna - slavic silver weight unit - between 150g up to 280g. In modern Polish language "grzywna" is a word used for financial penalties. Imagine JP Morgan paying their fines in silver bullion. reddit.com/gallery/rizhlr
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I made a map of how "Eastern European" the countries are after 5 criteria: Ex-Communism, Balto-Slavic language, Eastern Orthodox faith, Cyrillic alphabet and time-zone UTC +2/3/4.
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Balkan Slavs, which non-Slavic Balkan language do you think would be easier for you to learn and why?
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If you speak more than one Slavic language, does it get confusing? Like do you get, for example, Russian and Ukrainian mixed up? I'm learning Russian and want to learn other Slavic languages one day so I was curious
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English language resources on Western Slavic beliefs

Hi everyone! I thought these list of English-language resources on pre-Christian Polish beliefs and folklore may be of interest to some of you:

https://lamusdworski.wordpress.com/polish-paganism-resources/

The blog is worth well checking out if you're interested in Polish culture in general. Also, apologies if this has been shared before or if I'm posting in the wrong place

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Why is Romania an isolated Latin/Romance language speaking country in a sea of Slavic language speaking countries?
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IS HEBREW A SLAVIC LANGUAGE?

Π¨ = SH SH = Χ©

COINCIDENCE????? I THINK NOT

BOTH LOOK WAY TOO SIMILAR

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Cyrillic or Latin for Slavic languages: which one you prefer?
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If Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Balto-Slavic, and Indo-Iranian are thought to have a common origin in a language of the Corded Ware (a theory which seems common on this subreddit), does that imply centumisation occurred independently at least 3 different times?

Here's a basic overview of my understanding.

Since the corded ware language must have been neither centum nor satem, post-corded ware descendant languages must have innovated it independently from both Greek, and Tocharian.

Is that logic right?

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Non Slavic languages in Russia?

Hi, so I'm aware there are several non Russian languages in Russia, including Uralic and Turkic ones. While staying as close to European Russia as I can, although not necessary, what's the best minority/regional anguage to learn? Also which one would have the most resources?

Happy to hear anything you have to say :)

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Alright, my first post here, please be lenient :D. I would like to introduce you to one of my more recent conlangs - Dazhdin, which is a Slavic language with really thick Baltic influence. I would like to show you the alphabets for it - as it is a pluricentric language, there are more than one iiwiki.us/wiki/Dazhdin_or…
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Beer in all slavic languages meme (UPDATE)
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Czechs, other than Czech and Slovak which Slavic language do you understand the best?

My options are limited so i had to exclude some, i am not including languages like Belarusian, Sorbian or Kashubian because they aren't spoken by many people, i am also excluding Bulgarian and Macedonian because people from these countries have told me their languages are very far from West Slavic langauges

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Among these slavic languages (Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Russian), which is the closest to Polish and which is the most different to Polish? If I know Polish, would that make it easier to learn any of them?
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I made a map of how "Eastern European" the countries are after 5 criteria: Ex-Communism, Balto-Slavic language, Eastern Orthodox faith, Cyrillic alphabet and time zone UTC +2/3/4.
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If the Balto-Slavic languages had preserved *h₃rαΈ—Η΅s as their word for "king", what would it likely sound like today?

I only got as far as possibly Η΅>ΕΊ and h₃rαΈ—>re.

Edit:

> in which language?

I meant all of them, though knowing the Proto-Slavic form is enough to work it out for the Slavic languages. So I guess Proto-Slavic, Latvian, and Lithuanian.

Edit 2: I guess I can summarize this to make it more concise, in case someone wants to find out.

*h₃rαΈ—Η΅s is athematic (no vowel between the stem and the suffix). This doesn't seem to fit any Balto-Slavic declension pattern. There are two options here: modyfing *h₃rαΈ—Η΅s to *h₃rαΈ—Η΅os, or using the variant *h₃rΓ©Η΅os with short *e, which was used briefly in Proto-Germanic.

For the first variant:

*h₃rαΈ—Η΅os would become Proto-Balto-Slavic *rΔ“ΕΊas, which would have a homophone: *wreh₁ǡós > *rΔ“ΕΊas, which survived to this day. In Proto-Slavic, it became *rΔ›zъ. In Lithuanian, it became rΔ—ΕΎas [rΚ²eːʒɐs], and my guess is it would probably become Latvian rΔ“zs [ræːs].

For the second variant:

*h₃rΓ©Η΅os would become PBS *reΕΊas, and then PS *rezъ, Lithuanian reΕΎas [rʲɛʒɐs], and Latvian rezs [rΓ¦s], I think. For the modern Slavic languages, compare with *ledъ and *medъ.

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Oh! Interesting fact, Russian and American Sign Language are both part of the same language family (French Based) while the spoken languages are part of completely different language families (West Germanic and Slavic)
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90s Console War Franchises In Slavic Languages reddit.com/gallery/rkucld
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What (non-Russian) Slavic languages can you understand?

By this I mean including but not limited to Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Polish, Slovak, Czech etc etc etc how many/how much of these languages can you, as a Russian, understand?

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Beer in all slavic languages meme
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Slavic languages 1850-1950
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Why isn’t there a continuum between North and West Germanic languages like there is between West and East Slavic languages?
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Slavic language major??

hi all, i came to uoft wanting to major in history but i realized i would like to take a more specialized route. the history courses are generally too broad for my tastes. unfortunately i don’t really know what else i’d like to major in a part from slavic languages and literatures (russian) but i don’t know of any one doing it and i am a bit anxious about going into it blind. does anyone happen to be a slavic major? or know someone who is? i am currently in a class that only has 3 people, neither of which are slavic majors which concerns me (probably for no reason lol)

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Map showing the countries where Balto-Slavic languages are spoken by most people.
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My dishwasher cubes have instructions in 2 different Slavic languages
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Slavic languages in a nutshell
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I know how to read cyrillic but I don't know any russian or other slavic language
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How many of you thought Romanian was a Slavic language?

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Would Knowing Romanian Make it Much Easier to Learn Other Romance Languages? As well as Slavic Languages? How about Latin?

I live near Romanians and one the female member has been teaching Romanians for free at a building because my town has enough Romanians that there is the official Church of their country has a local building here (apparently a national one where everything is done in Romanian and all books are in that language, etc).

Their eldest Aunt is a very warm person and has told me to feel free to go to the local boarding building to learn lessons despite not being Romanian or a member of their national Church and she even agreed to do a few private lessons to me because (well I guess its partly because a few time I just helped a few members of the community out of the blue in different situations, though the girl is a pretty warm person herself in an Audrey Hepburn charming sortaway).

So I am gonna go ahead take the offer because I have nothing else to do in my free time and I admit I never took another language before. In fact I was gonna order some Dutch CDs to learn the language my fav celeb Audrey Hepburn but I decided to shelf that plan after receiving the next door neighbor's offer.

So TIL Romanian is a Romance Language. So does that mean knowing it would make French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and a whole other bunch of obscure language I just learned today from across Europe much easier to learn?

In addition reading on Wiki the language has a strong Slavic influence esp in word count. Enough I seen a few Redditors calling if a hybrid of Russian and Italian. So does that mean learning the language would put me a step up in learning Russian and Polish and other Eastern European languages and Balkan tongues such as Serbian?

Last but not lest a few posts online not just here in reddit but various blogs and forums, etc says Romanian is the one Romance Language today that is closest to Latin after Sardinian and some other old languages across Italy before the Unification. So would it be a building block for getting into Latin?

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Would Knowing Romanian Make it Much Easier to Learn Other Romance Languages? As well as Slavic Languages? How about Latin?

I live near Romanians and one the female member has been teaching Romanians for free at a building because my town has enough Romanians that there is the official Church of their country has a local building here (apparently a national one where everything is done in Romanian and all books are in that language, etc).

Their eldest Aunt is a very warm person and has told me to feel free to go to the local boarding building to learn lessons despite not being Romanian or a member of their national Church and she even agreed to do a few private lessons to me because (well I guess its partly because a few time I just helped a few members of the community out of the blue in different situations, though the girl is a pretty warm person herself in an Audrey Hepburn charming sortaway).

So I am gonna go ahead take the offer because I have nothing else to do in my free time and I admit I never took another language before. In fact I was gonna order some Dutch CDs to learn the language my fav celeb Audrey Hepburn but I decided to shelf that plan after receiving the next door neighbor's offer.

So TIL Romanian is a Romance Language. So does that mean knowing it would make French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and a whole other bunch of obscure language I just learned today from across Europe much easier to learn?

In addition reading on Wiki the language has a strong Slavic influence esp in word count. Enough I seen a few Redditors calling if a hybrid of Russian and Italian. So does that mean learning the language would put me a step up in learning Russian and Polish and other Eastern European languages and Balkan tongues such as Serbian?

Last but not lest a few posts online not just here in reddit but various blogs and forums, etc says Romanian is the one Romance Language today that is closest to Latin after Sardinian and some other old languages across Italy before the Unification. So would it be a building block for getting into Latin?

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If I learn another slavic language (such as Croatian) while learning Polish, would I find it easier to learn both of them compared to the case that I learn Polish and an unrelated language (such as Greek)?
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Is Armenian a slavic language just like Polish or Russian?
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Would Knowing Romanian Make it Much Easier to Learn Other Romance Languages? As well as Slavic Languages? How about Latin?

I live near Romanians and one the female member has been teaching Romanians for free at a building because my town has enough Romanians that there is the official Church of their country has a local building here (apparently a national one where everything is done in Romanian and all books are in that language, etc).

Their eldest Aunt is a very warm person and has told me to feel free to go to the local boarding building to learn lessons despite not being Romanian or a member of their national Church and she even agreed to do a few private lessons to me because (well I guess its partly because a few time I just helped a few members of the community out of the blue in different situations, though the girl is a pretty warm person herself in an Audrey Hepburn charming sortaway).

So I am gonna go ahead take the offer because I have nothing else to do in my free time and I admit I never took another language before. In fact I was gonna order some Dutch CDs to learn the language my fav celeb Audrey Hepburn but I decided to shelf that plan after receiving the next door neighbor's offer.

So TIL Romanian is a Romance Language. So does that mean knowing it would make French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and a whole other bunch of obscure language I just learned today from across Europe much easier to learn?

In addition reading on Wiki the language has a strong Slavic influence esp in word count. Enough I seen a few Redditors calling if a hybrid of Russian and Italian. So does that mean learning the language would put me a step up in learning Russian and Polish and other Eastern European languages and Balkan tongues such as Serbian?

Last but not lest a few posts online not just here in reddit but various blogs and forums, etc says Romanian is the one Romance Language today that is closest to Latin after Sardinian and some other old languages across Italy before the Unification. So would it be a building block for getting into Latin?

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