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To: annalex
You are most welcome, Alex. I think it is important for all Slav speakers to know their language history a little better. It is a sadly neglected aspect of our mutual cultures.

Just out of curiosity, how many words in the Church Slavonic dictionary (say, from 10 randomly picked pages) would you say are exactly the same as modern Russian?

66 posted on 05/25/2010 8:13:15 PM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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To: kosta50

I don’t have a Church Slavonic dictionary and could not find one online. I will do some random scheme using the scripture link you gave me, later.

If I were to guess, I’d say 80% are guessable, and 40% are the same. But as we’ve seen, most difficulty is in grammar and auxiliary words, which are not close. On occasion, you might run into changed semantics as well.


67 posted on 05/26/2010 5:27:17 AM PDT by annalex
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