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This new baby gets ALL the attention! (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

By what definition? Is it really mutual intelligible? I speak neither but from what I know, the pronunciation differs hugely and the vocabulary since Russian is influenced by Old Church Slavonic while Ukrainian has many loan words from Polish (which more often than not originate in Germanic languages).

Also: Someone smart once that a language is a dialect with a navi and an army and Ukraine has both, even though Putin would wish they didn't