question from student re Russian vs. Ukrainain language

[Stefan Pugh]

This is also amateurish, but I'd say Czech vs. Slovak, BUT add a large 
lexical component to one (say Slovak) not
shared by the other one... appr. 30% of the total.   However, 
Spanish-Portuguese works, as long as you still add
the lexical component!

Stefan

On 3/22/12 1:54 PM, Anne L Lounsbery wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I realize that this is both an “amateurish” question and a loaded one, 
> but because a student is asking me and I have no answer for her, I 
> thought I’d present her question to the list:  “How different are the 
> Russian and Ukrainian languages? As different as, say, Spanish is from 
> Portuguese? Mandarin Chinese from Cantonese?”
>
> What might be a good analogy to offer here?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Anne
>
> Anne Lounsbery
>
> Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Study
>
> Department of Russian & Slavic Studies
>
> New York University
>
> 19 University Place, 2^nd floor
>
> New York, NY 10003
>
> (212) 998-8674
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