Russian language is Balkan language ripoff

[Ford]

Absolutely incorrect message of the start post.
All languages ​​of pretentious nations evolve towards simplification, unification, reduction in the number of forms and cases. If the language stands still or is made (artificially) more archaic - you know, before you are "papuans" who will never be important in the global sense, regardless of their number.
English is less archaic than Old Saxon, Spanish is less archaic than Latin, Russian is less archaic than Church Slavonic and Polish. Compare also Mandarin Chinese with ancient Chinese. In contrast, even biblical Hebrew was less archaic than modern Arabic.
In theory, the champions in ultra-conservatism are the North Caucasians (with their 50 cases, coughing, growling and farting sounds), North American Indians, clicking Khoisans and Paleoasians. And where are they all?

Probably why their languages sound so epic and poetic.

[pulstar]

No, it's not. Balkan language doesn't even exist, the region has languages belonging to various linguistic groups. If you meant it's a Bosnian language ripoff, that's not true either, because Bosnian language also doesn't exist. If you meant it's a Serbo-Croatian language ripoff, that's also not the case. The similarity comes from having a common ancestral language. If you insist on using the term ripoff, which is very silly in this context to begin with, then I guess you could say Russian language is a Proto-Slavic language ripoff. But same goes for every Slavic language.

Its based on Old Church Slavonic and its a southeastern Slavic language closest to Bulgarian.

[KirillMazur]

Probably why their languages sound so epic and poetic.

Maybe they are beautiful for someone, but the problem is that in order to communicate outside your village, you must use Russian or other lingua franca.

[PAGANE]

The ancient Russian literary language is based on the Old Bulgarian. We don't know what the conversation was like
Modern Russian is a mixture of Slavic and Turkic with a predominantly Slavic vocabulary. This is perfectly normal given the historical development of Russia and the language.

[Rumata]

Maybe they are beautiful for someone, but the problem is that in order to communicate outside your village, you must use Russian or other lingua franca.

200 years ago Adyghe was well understood from Kerch Strait to Central Caucasus. But Russian empire turned out more resourceful indeed.

[Rumata]

The ancient Russian literary language is based on the Old Bulgarian. We don't know what the conversation was like
Modern Russian is a mixture of Slavic and Turkic with a predominantly Slavic vocabulary. This is perfectly normal given the historical development of Russia and the language.

Modern Russian is much more Latin or Germanic or even Greek than Turkic.

[Bosniensis]

Modern Russian is much more Latin or Germanic or even Greek than Turkic.

I am hanging around vkontakte, learning Russian a bit, what are the best vkontakte groups for me

It feels amazing reading Russian, it's like I understand every second sentence with struggle.

[Ülev]

^^
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https://vk.com/vladimirputin_rf
https://vk.com/vladimir_putin2020

[Rumata]

I am hanging around vkontakte, learning Russian a bit, what are the best vkontakte groups for me

It feels amazing reading Russian, it's like I understand every second sentence with struggle.

Ha-ha, why? Preparing a sabotage?

I'm not very active in vk because it's a totally controlled media.

[JosephK]

I studied Russian at university, and am able to get by in Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria... whereas Polish, Czech, Slovak are a mystery to me...

This:

The ancient Russian literary language is based on the Old Bulgarian. We don't know what the conversation was like
Modern Russian is a mixture of Slavic and Turkic with a predominantly Slavic vocabulary. This is perfectly normal given the historical development of Russia and the language.