Slavic Languages facts
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There is a man (Ioannis Ikonomou) in the European Commission who works as a translator and can speak 47 languages, including 21 of the 24 EU official languages. He can also speak dead languages like Old Church Slavic
how slavic languages sound?
A translator for the European Commission in Brussels knows 32 languages including Greek, English, German, Italian, Russian, East African Swahili, Hebrew, Arabic, Mandarin and Bengali, plus some dead languages like Old Church Slavic.
What countries speak slavic languages?
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what are the slavic languages?
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Slavic languages have more than one form of plural. It's like 2 horses, 3 horsee, 4 horsek, ...
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About Interslavic (Medžuslovjansky) which is a language that was created to be understood by people from all Slavic speaking countries. There is even a movie where it is the only language present!
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There used to a Cyrillic letter called Yus (Ѧ). All modern Slavic languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet have lost the nasal vowels (at least in their standard varieties), making Yus unnecessary
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The word “Robot” comes from the word robota, which means “work” in multiple Slavic languages. The word was introduced to the public by the Czech writer Karel Capek on suggestion from his brother, the painter Josef Capek.
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The Aegean Sea is referred to as the White Sea in some south Slavic languages.
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Czeslaw Milosz became a Berkley professor in 1961in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in California.
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Proto-Indo-European, an ancient language which was the common ancestor of the Romance, Greek, Germanic, Slavic, and Indo-Aryan languages.
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In 1999, a Slovak linguist created language "Slovio", simplified Slavic language, as simple as Esperanto but understood by some 400 million Slavs around the world.
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