Subgroup of the Indo-European languages, spoken in Eastern and Central Europe, the Balkans, and the Northern part of Asia.
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Why is Bulgarian classified as an "analytical" language when it's really a fusional inflecting language?
I also don't really understand where or how the consensus of Bulgarian having "no inflections like English" comes from.
If we take a look at the definitions between analytical and synthetic languages, we have the following:
Analytical language: Any…
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When were ъ and ь first distinguished in Slavic?
Some background info. These two symbols don't have a reading on their own, but rather affect the sound that appears right before them. In modern Russian they are:
ъ, which is the hard sign.
ь, which is instead the soft sign.
The distinction covers…
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Did Proto-Slavic allow four syllables with yers to be consecutive?
On another forum, we were discussing my proposal (presented in a paper I published in Valpovački Godišnjak and Regionalne Studije in 2022) that the river name Karašica comes from Illyrian *Kurrurrissia, borrowed into Proto-Slavic as *Kъrъrьsьja…
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What sound does the character 'u' in the Proto-Slavic word *bura (storm) represent?
Derksen reconstructs the Proto-Slavic word for "storm" as *bura:
Which sound does 'u' represent here? As far as I know, Proto-Slavic /u:/ (known as "jeri" in Croatian literature, "sharp i", usually denoted as *y) changed to /i/ in Croatian, whereas…
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Why are Proto-Slavic nasal vowels reconstructed as ę and ǫ?
Why are Proto-Slavic nasal vowels reconstructed as ę and ǫ? But not "i with a little tail" and "u with a little tail"?
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Proto-Slavic ablaut type
PS решти rešti (to speak) full e-grade / рѣчь rěčĭ (a speech) lengthened ē-grade
PS ĭ PIE i may also be lengthened to PS i PIE ey
But what type of ablaut is бьрати bĭrati (to gather) / берѫ berǫ (I gather)?
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Does Old Church Slavonic have 'design errors' due to being devised by non-natives?
I know Polish at a nearly-native level and Russian at a basic level.
Old Church Slavonic word meanings sound to me discordant with what I would we expect from those words' morphologies. Some prefixes sound wrongly added to verbs (with regard to the…
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Are Proto-Slavic present passive participle forms from first-person singular present forms?
Are Proto-Slavic present passive participle forms (e.g., *beromъ) from first-person singular present forms (e.g., *berǫ)?
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What is the type of ablaut?
PS *kysnǫti / *kvasъ PIE ū / wā (wō)
PS *xytiti / *xvatati PIE ū / wā (wō)
PS *xyrěti / *хvоrati ū / wo
? PS *ty / *tvоjь ū / wo
Is it somehow related to kʷetwóres rule?
modern Russian spelling
киснуть / квас
похитить / хватать
хиреть /…
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What is the difference between Slavic little yus and little iotified yus?
What is the difference between Old Slavic little yus ѧ and little iotified yus ѩ, and what does "iotation" mean in this context?
Relating to the difference between ѧ and ѩ, is the earliest form of the word "five" spelt пѧть or пѩть? If the earliest…
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