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Except the author of that is incorrect that Zamenhof spoke "an Eastern Polish dialect". Yes, he lived in what is now Poland, but his primary languages were Russ
by jhbadger 7y ago
Except the author of that is incorrect that Zamenhof spoke "an Eastern Polish dialect". Yes, he lived in what is now Poland, but his primary languages were Russian and Yiddish. He was a polyglot, and knew French, German, and Latin as well, but it is unclear if he actually knew Polish at all.
- gordonguthrie 7y agoExcept that there is a Slavic continuum. The spoken language of the border is Polish if written in the (catholic) Latin-derived script and (orthodox) Belorussian if written in Cyrillic or a (muslim) Polish Tartar if written in the Arabic script - which was still being used until the 1980s in that corner of the world - likewise Polish/Ukrainian and Polish/Czech