Bulgarian and Russian

[Alex Ushakov]

I would definitely support the claim made by your Bulgarian student. In my
opinion (I studied Bulgarian among a couple of other Slavic languages) it is
a Slavic language which - along with Macedonian, of course, and probably
Czech - is the farthest from Russian, especially when it comes to the
Grammar and Syntax, and despite the common alphabets and many similarities
in vocabularies, is hardly understood by an average Russian-speaking person.
I believe that  the most close to Russian are - after Belarusian and
Ukrainian - Polish and Slovak.

FYI, even Ukrainian as spoken (and written, e.g. works by Vasyl Stefanyk) in
some areas of the Western Ukraine, as well as the most close to it and
considered by some as a separate Eastern Slavonic language, Rusyn, are not
understood not only by the Russians, but even by the Ukrainians from the
Eastern and Central Ukraine.

Regards,

Alex Ushakov



----- Original Message -----
From: "Emily Tall" <mllemily at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: March 03 2002 5:09 PM
Subject: Bulgarian and Russian


> I was
> under the impression that Bulgarian was the most similar to Russian of
> the Slavic languages (aside from Belorussian and Ukrainian). I know, of
> course, about the alphabet, and I would think the grammar is pretty
> similar.

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