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Latin texts from 2000 years ago are quite clearly intelligible to modern Latin speakers. ;-)

by lisivka 10y ago

iopq 10y ago
Not really intelligible to Italian speakers that didn't study any Latin. Italian lacks noun cases. BUT, modern Russian still retains noun cases, multiple verb conjugations, rich aspect system, etc. that typifies Old Russian texts
- lisivka 10y ago
  There is no "Old Russian" language. You are talking about Old Church Slavonic language which is created by Saints Cyril and Methodius to translate Bible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic PS. Quote from (English) Wikipedia: The official language in Moscow and Novgorod, and later, in the growing Muscovy, was Church Slavonic, which evolved from Old Church Slavonic and remained the literary language for centuries, until the Petrine age, when its usage became limited to biblical and liturgical texts. Russian developed under a strong influence of Church Slavonic until the close of the 17th century; afterward the influence reversed, leading to corruption of liturgical texts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language
  - iopq 10y ago
    Wrong, Russians spoke the Old Russian language. Слово о плъкоу Игоревѣ was written in Old Russian. Old Church Slavonic is a different thing.
    - lisivka 10y ago
      There is no such thing as "Old Russian". "Слово о плъкоу Игоревѣ" is written in "folk language", which then evolved to Ukrainian language.
      - iopq 10y ago
        That's what Old Russian is - the language of Kievan Rus and related dialects.
- pacaro 10y ago
  But Latin had a (or really many depending on era and style) written form and a spoken form (vulgate). My understanding is that the vulgate is quite similar to some Italian regional dialects, although not to standard Italian (itself a postwar construct)

Latin texts from 2000 years ago are quite clearly intelligible to modern Latin speakers. ;-)

by lisivka 10y ago

Latin texts from 2000 years ago are quite clearly intelligible to modern Latin speakers. ;-)

iopq 10y ago

Not really intelligible to Italian speakers that didn't study any Latin. Italian lacks noun cases. BUT, modern Russian still retains noun cases, multiple verb conjugations, rich aspect system, etc. that typifies Old Russian texts

lisivka 10y ago
There is no "Old Russian" language. You are talking about Old Church Slavonic language which is created by Saints Cyril and Methodius to translate Bible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic PS. Quote from (English) Wikipedia: The official language in Moscow and Novgorod, and later, in the growing Muscovy, was Church Slavonic, which evolved from Old Church Slavonic and remained the literary language for centuries, until the Petrine age, when its usage became limited to biblical and liturgical texts. Russian developed under a strong influence of Church Slavonic until the close of the 17th century; afterward the influence reversed, leading to corruption of liturgical texts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language
- iopq 10y ago
  Wrong, Russians spoke the Old Russian language. Слово о плъкоу Игоревѣ was written in Old Russian. Old Church Slavonic is a different thing.
  - lisivka 10y ago
    There is no such thing as "Old Russian". "Слово о плъкоу Игоревѣ" is written in "folk language", which then evolved to Ukrainian language.
    - iopq 10y ago
      That's what Old Russian is - the language of Kievan Rus and related dialects.
pacaro 10y ago
But Latin had a (or really many depending on era and style) written form and a spoken form (vulgate). My understanding is that the vulgate is quite similar to some Italian regional dialects, although not to standard Italian (itself a postwar construct)