do russians speak slavic?

Question

why do russians and serbians sound like they speak the same language?

i meant russians sound like people from slavic countries serbia,slovenia,montenegro ect

oooooo i get it so russian is a slavic language,but then is russian a slavic state?

Answer 1

SLavic is not a language. Russian is a language with many dialects.

Answer 2

Slavik language family has three branches - western, eastern and southern. Russian belongs to the eastern group, Serbian belongs to the southern one. Certainly they have something in common, but the similarity is rather vague - I would say it's something untraceable, something in speech melody, in sense perception that makes both languages sound alike. Maybe some words will somehow coincide, but in general knowing Russian is not enough to understand Serbian, and vice versa.
Russian statehood started many centuries ago mainly by Slavic tribes somewhere around the territory of present-day Moscow. Then it slowly expanded eastwards and you know how far it reaches today. That territories were occupied by people of another origin, so there was a great mixture. Some researchers claim that purely Slavic territory stretches only up to the Urals. Anyway Russian language has always been the leading one. So if judged by linguistic criterion - Russia IS a slavic country, if judged by ethnic criterion - the statement is rather doubtful.

Answer 3

Both Russian and Serbian are members of the Slavic language family. To a person who does not speak any Slavic languages, they probably sound similar/the same.

Conversely, a Russian with no foreign language experience would probably have trouble distinguishing, say, English, Dutch, and Norwegian.

Answer 4

There are many Slavic languages, which are closely related (some closer than others). Russian and Serbian are not the same language, but they belong to the same language family.

A similar example are Romance languages - French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, etc. To someone who doesn't know them, they can also sound a lot alike, but they're still different languages.

Answer 5

Russian is one of the slavic languages group (Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak,Sorbian, Slovenian, Serbian,Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian). Russians speak Russian, which is a slavic language.

Answer 6

They speak Russian, a slavic language.

Answer 7

You can't define people's race by their language, nor vice versa.

That said, both Slavonic and Germanic are families of languages spoken by tribes that may have lived near each other 6000 years ago.

Because of historical circumstance, the Slavonic group has not separated so widely as the Germanic: ie, it is easier for a Pole to understand a Russian (however much he may pretend not to) than it is for an Englishman to understand a Dutchman -- I mean of course a Dutchman who has had no contact with English, if such a person exists -- though Dutch is the most closely related to English among national languages.

Answer 8

do no longer overlook, that Ukraine and Belarus no longer some distance in the past have been areas of the Soviet empire, the place the understanding of the Russian language became crucial very almost for each individual. In Ukraine the Russian language is extensively used: multiple people use it as their time-honored communique language (of couse, Cossak 's fact approximately 70% is a ludicrous fiction, the actual selection is plenty decrease, although that's substantial besides), various Russian-language newspapers, television courses etc exist. As i discussed, no longer plenty time in the past anybody heavily studied Russian at school. by way of fact of those motives, that's quite much impossible to locate somebody who would not comprehend Russian. I personnaly recognize a few people who won't have the capacity to talk Russian, yet this is in simple terms becouse they do no longer attempt - they recognize the language and that they particularly comprehend different individuals speaking Russian. it is not uncommon to have some ppl communicate Russian and a few Ukrainian contained in the comparable communique. for this reason, that's stressful to make a "clean" test, as maximum of Ukrainian people comprehend the two languages. As for Belarusian, I by no ability heard Belarusian speech. although, once I attempt to examine Belarusian texts i will comprehend very almost each thing, yet I ought to examine slowly and with multiple interest for this. ======= 2Cossak: "ok..ok...approximately 70% fiction,yet by utilising final 3 hundred and sixty 5 days statistic close to 60% use russian,ITS fact!!!" is this respected information? are you able to grant a link? > i stay close to ukraine,watch urkaine channels(why they use RUSSIAN????).... and that i communicate with people from Ukraine and have nativeties in Ukraine,i recognize greater advantageous then evil polish or kotsap or siberian.I hate while people which by no ability been in Ukraine can say approximately Ukraine... OMG! cool down, don't be so apprehensive. guy, I stay contained in the midsection of Ukraine and that i tell what I see around me. you reside out of the country and you tell what you heared from somebody. ??????????, ?????? - ? ?? ????? ???? ????????. ??? ?????, ???? ?????????????, ?? "??? ???????? ?????????? ? ?????? ?? ?????? ????? ????????? ??????????? ???????????" ?????. ?? ????, ??????, ?? ?? ?????? ? ???, ?? ??????. ?????????

Answer 9

i know russian... to me it doesnt sound same with serbian. it sounds same to you coz you dont know the language.

Answer 10

No, Russians are not Slavs . But they have been interacting a lot, so there are many similarities in the languages.