HOW CLOSE WERE SLAVIC LANGUAGES 1000 YEARS AGO

[Borna]

so you dont understand some 80 million slavs

I do understand but when they speak each word separately, while with Russian,Ukrainian, Slovak or Czech you can catch up lot quicker.

[dado]

i dont understand even slovenian
i do understand macedonian and to some point bulgarian

[Sandman]

im trying to identify the separation moment....was there ever single slavic language really...personally i doubt it

I think that until the 10th century the languages ​​of western and eastern Slavs were so close that you can freely communicate.

[Guapo]

I think that until the 10th century the languages ​​of western and eastern Slavs were so close that you can freely communicate.

It all depends. Slavic spoken in Serbia proper was closer to Slovak until the lingustic reforms of the 1800's which is why people still kept ekavian accent like the Slovenes for example.

[Crn Volk]

I think you have to go back further than 1000 years to find a common Slavic language

[Guapo]

I think you have to go back further than 1000 years to find a common Slavic language

Exactly

[Crn Volk]

i know...but still it would be interesting to see polish, russian, bulgarian, check at that time period

especialy bulgarian...i mean did they even spoke slavic at that time at all, there are stories about turkish origin of bulgars

Old Bulgars were not Slavic, but by the 10th/11th century they were largely Slavicized. Old Church Slavonic is actually based on the language of the Macedonian Slavs, rather than Bulgars, who were still in the process of Slavicizing at that point.

[Methmatician]

I remember visiting a website that recorded a person speaking the Freising Manuscripts which are in a Slavic language spoken in Slovenia in the 10th century AD. I can't find them now but maybe a Slovenian member can. It was interesting hearing old Slavic being spoken.

[Methmatician]

Okay, I've found the website. Here it is.

[Rugevit]

I have always considered Polish and Czech, maybe even Sorbian to be the closest to the actual old slavic languages. As for croatian, serbian and bosniak languages are probably more latin infleunced but could retain the original language much like how germanic languages today are heavily latinized, except icelandic.

Slavic languages are conservative being more similar than other European languages. 1,500 proto-Slavic was spoken. 1,100 years ago Old Church Slavonic was already in use. Old Church Slavonic influenced greatly east Slavic and Bulgarian languages. Hence, east Slavic are probably more archaic than other languages. I can read text written in the 12th century by monk Nestor in Kiev without consulting dictionaries. Most eastern Slavs will. understand the text. Some archaic linguistic features are preserved in some languages, while lacking in other. And vice vera. Bulgarian language lost many cases, which is peculiar given that all Slavic languages have 6-7 cases.