In the present study we tested the level of mutual intelligibility. The studies described in the first part of the thesis were a part of a larger project involving germanic, romance and slavic language families. How can the mutual intelligibility between closely related languages be measured. Spanish,yielding20languagepairsandslavic bulgarian, croatian,czech,polish, slovak,slovene,i. Nadia is helping me test polish bulgarian mutual intelligibility. Factors explaining intelligibility a model of intelligibility. The results show that in most cases, a division between west and south slavic languages does exist and that west. University of groningen mutual intelligibility in the. Nevertheless, a croatian speaker would absorb more from a bulgarian speaker than a polish speaker. Measuring crosslinguistic intelligibility in the germanic. Kajkavian speakers are croatian politically and identify as croats, however their dialect is closer linguistically to slovene than to the shtokavian dialect which is the basis for both standard serbian, bosnian, montenegrin and croatian and serbo croatian, historically. Mutual intelligibility among the romance languages. Bulgarian and macedonian are mutually intelligible, but i dont think any other slavs find them particularly easy to understand.
Serbs speak much faster than russians, and an average russian wouldnt understand a word of serbian when they speak, because its just too fast, ev. Mutual intelligibility in slavic language specific. Russian has a quite high degree of intelligibility with bulgarian, possibly on the order of 75%. Differences between various standard forms of serbo croatian are often exaggerated for political reasons. But norwegians high degree of mutual intelligibility with spoken.
How mutually intelligible are the various slavic languages. Theres some mutual intelligibility with slovenian as well. In order to get as complete a picture as possible, we tested intelligibility using three different methods and all three methods were used with both written and spoken language. Dialectology, obviously, is the study of dialect and dialects. Results from,566 participants were analyzed for the 70 withinfamily combinations of speaker. Serbocroatian or have serbian and croatian separated. Mutual intelligibility in the slavic language area 66 3. Generally, we can understand each other with some difficulties. Its intelligible with the kajkavian dialect of croatian, spoken in the zagorje region. To my knowldege, there is no new or different content, other than a software interface with all the advantages that come. Lachian is transitional between czech and polish while torlak is transitional between bcmsserbo croatian and bulgarian or macedonian.
During the protobaltoslavic period a number of exclusive isoglosses in phonology, morphology, lexis, and syntax developed, which makes slavic and baltic the closest. On the same subject, is it true that macedonian andor bulgarian have mutual intelligibility with bosnianserbian croatian montenegrin. Languages as a base for modeling of mutual intelligibility. We therefore expect crosslanguage intelligibility between slovene and croatian to be asymmetric and in favour of serbiancroatian.
In this series of videos we investigate the phenomena of mutual intelligibility between polish and other slavic languages. Serbian slovenian there are differences that make communicatio. The slavic group includes bulgarian, czech, polish, slovak and slovene. Pdf mutual intelligibility of languages in the slavic family robert. Are serbian and russian mutually intelligible languages. Pdf mutual intelligibility among the romance languages. Serbo croatian and bulgarian have about 10% intelligibility, however, there are transitional. Czech, slovak, polish, croatian, slovenian and bulgarian on the level of lexicon, orthography. This thesis explores mutual intelligibility in the slavic language area how to measure it, how to predict it and how to. University of groningen mutual intelligibility in the slavic. In this video we continue looking for an answer to this question. Are croatian and serbian the same or different language. Pdf mutual intelligibility between west and south slavic. Dialects, that is, can be regarded as subdivisions of a particular language.
Mutual intelligibility wikimili, the best wikipedia reader. Serbo croatian speakers can on the whole understand macedonian better than slovene. The term serbo croatian was first used by jacob grimm in 1824, popularized by the viennese philologist jernej kopitar in the following decades, and accepted by croatian zagreb grammarians in 1854 and 1859. Czech, slovak, polish, croatian, slovenian and bulgarian.
In the present study we tested the level of mutual intelligibility between three west slavic czech, slovak and polish and three south slavic languages croatian, slovene and bulgarian. Is slovenian mutually intelligible with serbianbosnian. Pdf mutual intelligibility of languages in the slavic. Serbo croatian and bulgarian have about 10% intelligibility, however. Learn to speak and understand croatian with pimsleur language programs additional resources to learn croatian. The results show that in most cases, a division between west and south slavic languages. In this chapter we tested the level of mutual intelligibility between three west slavic czech, slovak and polish and three south slavic languages croatian,slovene and bulgarian. It is commonly believed that all slavic languages are fully mutually intelligible, which implies that they are close. The degree of mutual intelligibility between language vari. Maybe in a very basic level you can pick up some words or even some small phrases.
Mutual intelligibility between west and south slavic languages. If written down there can be some mutual intellegibility, spoken hardly any. We play language games and have free style bilingual conversations. So in essence, there is spoken mutual intelligibility between all slavic languages but that can range from the 80% of czech vs slovak to the 5% of polish vs bulgarian. Mutual intelligibility between west and south slavic. How mutually intelligible are the languages of the balkan. We consider mainly national languages spoken in countries which belong. Slovak, polish, croatian, slovenian and bulgarian on the level of lexicon, orthography, phonology, morphology and syntax. Croatian bosnian bulgarian macedonian serbian russian. Croatian slovene bulgarian czech slovak polish participantsnativelanguage croatian 74. Bulgarian i was surprised, that after i learnt how to read cyrillic it was quite a understandably to me. Cannot measure mutual intelligibility many languages fail the test of mutual intelligibility standard languages and governments impact what is a language and what is a dialect.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how similarmutually intelligible. Measuring crosslinguistic intelligibility in the germanic, romance. Last voicesson sesler robert lindsay mutual intelligibility of l. But true mutual intelligibility,it seems,is way far from that. Mutual intelligibility is not the only criterion linguists use.
Pdf mutual intelligibility between west and south slavic languages. At that time, serb and croat lands were still part of the ottoman and austrian empires. In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. Having a large body of recognizable vocabulary is a necessary condition for mutual intelligibility, but it is nowhere near sufficient. However, the nonstandard vernacular dialects of serbocroatian kajkavian, chakavian. Slavic languages descend from protoslavic, their immediate parent language, ultimately deriving from protoindoeuropean, the ancestor language of all indoeuropean languages, via a protobaltoslavic stage.
Macedonian is closely related to and shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with the bulgarian and serbian languages. Publishers pdf, also known as version of record publication date. Orthographic and morphological correspondences between. Mutual intelligibility between west and south slavic languages8 abstract. Serbocroatian and bulgarian have about 10% intelligibility, however, there are transitional. Mutual intelligibility of languages in the slavic family. Spoken croatian is even worse because as czechs, they dont use a literary standard a lot. What are the differences between croatian and serbian language. English czech polish bulgarian russian preliminary results. In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which. Slavic language mutual intelligibility best, people. But again, this is a separate discussion from mutual intelligibility. Polsih is pronounced very different from bulgarian. Serbo croatian or have serbian and croatian separated.
Its a very interesting language from the grammar point of view simple past tenses and preserved definiteness of adjectives. Mutual intelligibility between closely related languages. Mutual intelligibility means two people can understand each other when speaking. Orthography in language modeling of mutual intelligibility. To measure how well the levels correlate with one another. General discussion and conclusions in this thesis we have developed and applied a commensurate measure of intelligibility and factors influencing it. Were testing mutual intelligibility between polish and bulgarian. Slavic languages comparison can slavs understand each. Do people in croatia understand serbian and vice versa.
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