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Questions about language evolution and the relation of 'vernaculars' and 'standards' is in my wheelhouse, in fact. (Church Slavonic is South Slavic and Russian
by _emacsomancer_ 6y ago
Questions about language evolution and the relation of 'vernaculars' and 'standards' is in my wheelhouse, in fact. (Church Slavonic is South Slavic and Russian is firmly East Slavic, like Ukranian and Belarusian, at least in terms of its descent, but as both Church Slavonic and Russian have been 'standards', its not surprising that Russian (at least the standardised, formal versions of Russian) would have been influenced by (the standardised) Church Slavonic).)
But in this case, I was just wondering about which languages (in the pseudohistory) are considered 'folk languages'. Does Ukrainian count as a 'folk language'? Are all Slavic languages in Russia that aren't Russian 'folk languages'?
- drran 6y agoUkrainian language IS the folk language. It was known as "folk language" ("народная молва") previously.
- int_19h 6y agoBy Ukrainians, sure. It's pretty common for people to refer to their own speech simply as "the speech", and have more specific labels for other people. Ukrainian (and Russian, and most other Slavic languages) also uses a word for Germans that literally means "mute", for similar reasons.