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- About 12 000 speakers of six Slavic languages took part in a web-based intelligibility experiment. The findings show that the most important thing is how similarly words that have the same root are pronounced in two languages. Also, the more exposed you are to the language you are trying to understand, the better you will be at it.
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There is a high level of mutual intelligibility between the closely related West Slavic languages Czech and Slovak (the Czech–Slovak languages).
So in essence, there is spoken mutual intelligibility between all Slavic languages but that can range from the ~80% of Czech vs Slovak to the ~5% of Polish vs Bulgarian. And here's a diagram of Slavic lexical similarity.
Jul 15, 2017 · By means of a large-scale web-based investigation, we established the degree of mutual intelligibility of 16 closely related spoken languages within the Germanic, Slavic and Romance language families in Europe.
- Charlotte Gooskens, Vincent van Heuven, Jelena Golubovic, Anja Schüppert, Francisca Swarte, Stefanie...
- 2018
This thesis explores mutual intelligibility in the Slavic language area – how to measure it, how to predict it and how to increase it. It consists of two main parts: in part one, we measured the intel - ligibility levels among six Slavic languages as well as the factors we believed could predict them
Sep 18, 2015 · In the present study we tested the level of mutual intelligibility between three West Slavic (Czech, Slovak and Polish) and three South Slavic languages (Croatian, Slovene and Bulgarian). Three different methods were used: a word translation task, a cloze test and a picture task.
- Jelena Golubović, Charlotte Gooskens
- 2015
By means of a large-scale web-based investigation, we established the degree of mutual intelligibility of 16 closely related spoken languages within the Germanic, Slavic and Romance language families in Europe.
Jun 11, 2018 · To this date, research into the mutual intelligibility of the semicommunication of West Slavic languages has been conducted exclusively by sociolinguistic methods.
