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In this episode, I explored a minority language that kept one very interesting feature to this very day - Sorbian. P.S. Since Sorbian (both Upper and Lower) are small languages and the pronunciation was hard to find, it may be that /w/ is pronounced different, and I apologize for that. The transcript & a map can be found here. References: 1. Gvozdanović, Jadranka. "Number in Sorbian with...

Although the quality of the sound in this episode is a bit lower than what you’re used to, I couldn’t miss the chance of  talking to these two amazing girls - Nina Tunteva & Viktorija Blazheska, founders of Jazicharnica , a blog about linguistics in Macedonian. I had a blast chatting  with them about their blog, Macedonian dialects, how my ( Torlakian ) dialect is close to Macedonian and many...

In episode #6, I am going to give you an overlook of Czech dialects, that can be split into two main categories - Bohemian and Moravian. The map of Czech dialects, as well as the transcript of this episode can be found here.   References: 1. Kosek, Pavel. "Česká nářečí." Historická mluvnice češtiny-překlenovací seminář (2014): 84-100. 2. A script for VO Synchrone Sprachwissenschaft Tsche...

In this episode, we are going through phonetic, morphological and lexical differences of three major Russian dialects - Southern, Northern and Middle Russian. The map and this episode’s transcript can be found here . Interesting videos about this topic can be found here and here. Bibliography: 1.   Kasatkin, L.L. Russkaja dialektologija . Moskva. 1989. 2.   Machalov, A.S. Russkaja dialektologija:...

In this episode, Josh Rocchio is going to help me find out what are the characteristics of Littoral, Panonian and Rovte dialects of Slovene.  Thank you again, Josh, for joining me!  Support the show Support Slavstvuyte through www.buymeacoffee.com/slavstvuyte Follow me on Facebook , Instagram , Twitter , and Linkedin . For additional information, go to www.slavstvuyte.org All inquiries, questions,...

This episode is going to cover basic characteristics of four out of seven Slovene regional dialects - Styrian, Lower & Upper Carniolan and Carinthian. Link to the map of Slovene dialects, as well as the transcript to this week's episode can be found here . Literature: 1. Kolarič, Rudolf. Slovenska narečja in Jezik in slovstvo, II/1956–1957 (1957): 247-254. 2. Logar, Tine. Slovenski dialek...

In this episode, we continue discussing future tense in other two groups of Slavic languages, and we are determinate to find out whether the phenomenon we found in Slovene is just an exception or does it have something in common with other Slavic languages. Transcript of this episode can be found here . Literature:   Błaszczak, Joanna, et al. "The riddle of ‘future tense’in Polish." Futu...

In this episode, we are going to be talking a bit more about how future tense is built in South Slavic languages. Be aware - one of them does it differently! You want to find out which one? Join us! Transcript of this episode can be found here References: Mišeška Tomić, Olga. The syntax of the Balkan Slavic Future tenses in  Lingua 114 (2004). p. 517–542  Migdalski, Krysztof Marek. The syntax of c...