question from student re Russian vs. Ukrainain language

[Olia Prokopenko]

Hear, hear!

Olia

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Rebecca Jane Stanton <rjs19 at columbia.edu>wrote:

> 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
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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