Mutual Intelligibility of Slavic Languages

[Archduke]

Bulgarians borrowed gramma from Romania and vocabulary from Russia. I am not your private teacher, btw. Go and buy some private lessons in Australia, if you can afford them.

Haha and what language did we spoke before we borrowed grammar and vocabulary from various Eastern European countries?

Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_sprachbund

Our grammar is heritage from our Mediterranean ancestors.

[Veneda]

Haha and what language did we spoke before we borrowed grammar and vocabulary from various Eastern European countries?

Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_sprachbund

Our grammar is heritage from our Mediterranean ancestors.

You are odd Slavs and your language is very hard to understand for me

[щрбл]

Bullshit. I've never heard that before in my life and I'de be hard pressed to find any other Bulgarian who has, the fact that you refuse to respond with any source, let alone a credible one shows you're just throwing up shit from your mouth.

It's the first time I hear about that as well.

[Veneda]

It's the first time I hear about that as well.

Didn't you hear about enclitic definite articles in Bulgarian language which are not present in Western and Eastern Slavic languages? This language feature makes Bulgarian hard to understand for Poles and Russians.

[щрбл]

Didn't you hear about enclitic definite articles in Bulgarian language which are not present in Western and Eastern Slavic languages? This language feature makes Bulgarian hard to understand for Poles and Russians.

I do know that they do not exist in west/east languages. What I had never of on the contrary is that the Bulgarian grammar was borrowed from the Romanian one.

[Trun]

Bulgarians borrowed gramma from Romania and vocabulary from Russia.

Bulgarian is the oldest written Slavic language. If anything has been borrowed, it's from us, not by us. Romania had been part of the Bulgarian Empire, it became a country much later.

[Veneda]

I do know that they do not exist in west/east languages. What I had never of on the contrary is that the Bulgarian grammar was borrowed from the Romanian one.

But some scholars made studies about this. Some grammar elements in Bulgarian seem to be non-Slavic. Language is a part of a culture, which envoles and absorbs elements from neighbouring countries. This is natural process, imo, which is applicable to all languages, not only to Bulgarian.

[igo112]

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[Óttar]

If an enclitic definite article is the only thing Bulgarian has inherited from Romanian then that doesn't mean Bulgarian grammar comes from Romanian. Definite articles do not define an entire language.

You are odd Slavs. Your language is very hard to understand for me.

Fixed. I added punctuation. When I first read it I thought "Why is she calling Slavs odd? She's Polish."

[cocoNN]

I can understand Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and maybe a bit of Macedonian.

I can speak if I spend a bit of time there (let's say after 2 weeks), but I'm scared because of the accent. Slovenian is more 'hard' language.