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Thread: Belarusian lang. is called Lithuanian language, in Poland

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danielion View Post
    And German-speakers are too intimidated by Slavic grammar to re-learn Sorbian. It's a poor excuse in my opinion. People discuss the difficulty of Slavic languages more than they actually tackle that discussed difficulty.

    Just a hypothesis though. Belarusian has a larger population than Sorbian (which in turn is split in two languages to boot), that's probably the true reason.
    Number of speakers is a factor, but not defining one. Similarity is the key i think. While Sorbian is surrounded by German which is very different, Belarussian been assimilated by Polish and Russian which are very close. And in very close languages assimilation not always works. You can perfectly speak belarussian to a russian speaker, so pressure to learn is not so big.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danielion View Post
    And German-speakers are too intimidated by Slavic grammar to re-learn Sorbian. It's a poor excuse in my opinion. People discuss the difficulty of Slavic languages more than they actually tackle that discussed difficulty.

    Just a hypothesis though. Belarusian has a larger population than Sorbian (which in turn is split in two languages to boot), that's probably the true reason.
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