<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=koi8-r">
<META content="MSHTML 5.50.3825.1300" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear colleagues, I have computed the data on the
frequency of occurrence of phonemes in the sound chain of 111 world languages
and I found the data on 42 languages in literature. However, I failed to find
any data of the frequency of occurrnce of sounds in Old Russian. I wonder if
there were published these data? May be some American slavist got it published
in some local working papers? If the OLd Russian "Russkaja pradva, Povest'
Vremennyh Let" and other OLd RUssian texts have not been computed, then I may do
it, if I see the interest among the world linguists. Surely, after computing Old
Russian texts, we can investigate the sound picture of Old Russian and compare
the OLd Russian sound picture to those of modern Slavonic languages to find out
the similarities. So far, our investigations showed that modern Russian is
closer to Ukrainian, then to Belorussian, then Czech and so on. I guess it is
interesting to find out the phonological distances between Old Russian and
Russian, or the other Slavonic languages. Unfortunately, I failed to find a
bursary to travel to the linguistic congress in Prague where I wanted to share
my ideas on languages distances between Slawonic, as well as Tungus-Manchurian,
Paleo-Asiatic, Turkic, Finno-Ugric and some other language families. I'd
very much appreciate hearing your opinion to my e-mail address: <A
href="mailto:yutamb@hotmail.com">yutamb@hotmail.com</A> Remain yours
sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk,
Russia </FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>