question from student re Russian vs. Ukrainain language

[Rebecca Jane Stanton]

Maybe Spanish/Italian?  That captures something of the lexical component 
(Arabic influence in Spanish not shared by Italian).  And captures the 
different "musical styles" of the two languages, as well.

Ukrainian is the Italian in this amateurish analogy, of course :-)

Rebecca

On 3/22/2012 2:08 PM, Stefan Pugh wrote:
> 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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