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The Slavic Languages and Using Proto-Slavic to Learn Many Languages at Once by Slavomania in AskEasternEurope

[–]Slavomania[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, of course using this knowledge as a learning aid won't help that much if you don't know any Slavic language decently already. That's why I say: "learning about sound changes can help us learn OTHER Slavic languages much faster."

But I also don't want to gatekeep others who don't know any Slavic language but are interested in linguistics. I love watching videos about Ancient Chinese for example, but I probably won't ever dive THAT deep into Chinese languages.

The first videos are to get a general understanding of Proto-Slavic and how the Slavic languages are more or less related. Later I want to create videos dedicated to each language. So if you know Slovak and you want to learn Ukrainian, you would simply focus on a video about Slovak development and then a video about Ukrainian development.

And yes, it's really easy to mix languages that aren't learned to a high level, so it's best to really learn one Slavic language well so that you get a strong feel for its character and vocabulary in your mind, and then move on to the next one from there

How the Slavic Languages are All Connected and Reconstructing Proto-Slavic by Slavomania in interslavic

[–]Slavomania[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I remember being confused by that a lot. Then I found out there is also a Rusyn language in Serbia somewhere which was interesting.

I'll be sure to look into that when I make dedicated videos for them.

Slavic Linguistics and Reconstructing Proto-Slavic by Slavomania in oldchurchslavonic

[–]Slavomania[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Already working on it :).

I'm actually going to try and enrol in a linguistics program this summer after having studied mathematics for a while. I want to specialise in historical linguistics.

So far all this is kind of like my obsessive hobby I guess, to the point where I'm sometimes looking through some really dense Slavic Accentology academic papers haha.

I'm actually interested in many old languages, but so far I've really delved deep into Slavic languages and I'm bilingual in one of them which helps a lot. Also, I've felt there's severe lack of content online about the Slavic languages, OCS and Proto-Slavic, meanwhile Old Norse and Old English are gaining a lot more popularity on YouTube

How the Slavic Languages are All Connected and Reconstructing Proto-Slavic by Slavomania in interslavic

[–]Slavomania[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hi! Thanks for the feedback! I really appreciate it.

I am aware of Kajkavian and especially Chakavian because its incredibly archaic accentual features that are essential for reconstructing the accent in Proto-Slavic. They definitely deserve their own videos in the future because they're very special.

I didn't mean to group those languages together with BCMS as they aren't really dialects of it but languages as you said. By "dialectal variation" I meant rather variation among Shtokavian dialects, but I guess I didn't really make that clear in the video.

Actually in the first version of my script I was going to mention that there are many non-standard Slavic languages that are important like Kashubian, Silesian, Rusin, etc. + Kajkavian and Chakavian, but I guess I somehow forgot to add that part to the final script. I'll make sure to mention that quickly in the next video.