MOLOTOFF! Please enlighten us on the Slavic languages. How similar are they? For instance

[Grigori Rasputin]

can a Bosnian understand a Ukrainian?

Can a Lithuanian understand Finnish ?

What sort of family do these languages close to ?

How similar is Russian to Ukrainian?

Can you understand all the former Yugoslavian nation’s languages?

 

[sigmund]

Isnt Bosnia in the Balkans and Ukrain is in east of Europe? they have no connection

 

[Marquis]

Isnt Bosnia in the Balkans and Ukrain is in east of Europe? they have no connection

Bosnians and the other Balkan Slavs like Bulgarians and Serbians are South Slavs while Ukrainians and Russians are East Slavs.

 

[A_A]

Isn’t Serbian and Bosnian all the same language?

 

[Molotoff]

can a Bosnian understand a Ukrainian?

Can a Lithuanian understand Finnish ?

What sort of family do these languages close to ?

How similar is Russian to Ukrainian?

Can you understand all the former Yugoslavian nation’s languages?

Yes, a Bosnian can understand a Ukrainian, Russian and Ukrainian are East Slavic languages.

Lithuanians and Finns are not Slavs. Lithuanian is Baltic, Finnish Finno-Ugric.

All South Slavs understand each other.

 

[Molotoff]

Isnt Bosnia in the Balkans and Ukrain is in east of Europe? they have no connection

Ukraine is eastern Europe while Bosnia is southeastern Europe. We share a common Slavic ancestry and language.

 

[Marquis]

Isn’t Serbian and Bosnian all the same language?

they are the same people. Those who are Muslim are "Bosniaks" and those who are Orthodox are "Serbians".

 

[Molotoff]

Isn’t Serbian and Bosnian all the same language?

One could argue they are different dialects of the same South Slavic language.