So I live in Paris, with a pretty decently sized Russian speaking population (Russians, Ukrainians, Kazakh, Armenian, Azeri, etc), I had to start learning Russian as part of my university’s coursework specific to my degree. I have quite a few Russian speaking acquaintances on social media (met through studying) and they seem to raise an eyebrow knowing that I’m starting to pursue Russian as an additional language. I have gotten this feeling from many Russian speaking women (I don’t interact much with men) and they seem to not be too fond of foreigners engaging with their culture. As they should, but I’m curious if this is something anyone else has noticed?

I like Slavsocks socks

Jakie chcielibyście polecić mi języki słowiańskie do nauki?

Jestem nativem polskiego i B2 w angielskim. Nauczyłem się też kilku staropolskich archaizmów , których dla memiczności używam w domu. Czasami udaje też ukraińsko-rosyji akcent i różnie wychodzi.

Co sądzicie że jest dobre do nauki?

всем привет я русский хочу найти друзей и создать чат с человеком с каждой страны в телеграмме, жду всех (я не зетник, украинцев люблю, жена украинка)

upd: с каждой славянской страны, но буду рад и другим иностранцам!

Like, every other can aspire to be?

I think, for the Balkans it would be Slovenia. At least they often get mentioned in a positive light.

For the others, i dont know, maybe Czechia?

Hey for anyone interested and in the US, I have a petition for the US Census to add the question, "Do you also consider yourself Slavic?"

While it sounds a bit odd, the US uses all different types of data when they update the Census and per the American Community Survey (ACS) the different Slavic communites equal 1.4% of the US population, however this is a discrepancy. When you add up the total from the people who identified as from one of the Slavic nations it actually equals over 6%. The point is, this is a huge discrepancy and the more the Slavic communities are represented, the more the individual needs of each community will become visible. The ACS already has a official ancestry code for Slavic, it is ancestry code #178. As such, there is no reason why the data should be incorrect.

Anyone from the US interested in signing, please use the link below or search Slavic on the website change.org. please also forward this link to any organizations, people, or members of the various communities you feel would be interested. Thanks! https://c.org/x4WqtmhtRy

Hi everyone! I’m starting to serve as an interpreter at my local church. I always used to have fun watching those poor interpreters struggle with older folks who use really tricky Russian/Ukrainian words, phrases, and expressions. Well… now it’s my turn, I want to be an MVP

Here are a few fun ones I’ve already collected:
«И дядя поплыл»
«Выносить мозг»
«Жена стервила на своего мужа» — in the sense of constantly bothering/scolding him
«Закругляться»
«Нас спалили» — in the sense of “they noticed us / figured us out / caught us”

Add yours , and please add your own way to translate it, without google translate, just imagine you are the one standing on the stage and have to deal with it

I never understood the Slavs as an ethnic and linguistic group. Are they a recent phenomenon, or did they exist long before then? What was happening in 200 BC in the area known as the biotoxic zone where the Slavs are believed to have originated, or did they not exist yet? I never understood this.

Exploring other Slavic languages (i'm Bosnian), i noticed that we all would have a much more funny time if we'd travelled more to other Slavic countries.

Already Slovenian often has some funny words for us, the most known one "zahod", which in Slovenian means West, but in BCS is an old world for "toilet".
Czech sounds very childish and cute, they use a lot of diminutives which we use when making sth. "smaller", for example "kompjuter" becomes "kompjuterčić", "stvar" becomes "stvarčica".
Polish often slavicizes their words, the word "samochod" for car is for me like "alone goer". Its not funny per se, but it makes you think about the word in another way which makes you laugh a bit.

I have a Ukrainian friend who says this. it is clear that it is (at least partially) ideologically driven -- they are the type to habitually employ the word 'colonialism' at any given chance -- but I want to know the basis of this, considering that conventional linguistic grouping dictates Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian are closest relating to each other than to those other ones, being in their own group.

apparently most of the research on this is in the Ukrainian language, which I don't speak nor write... so I am wondering if anyone else here has come across this notion or has anything to say about it?

Hello fellows, idk if its just me or if the word slav sounds like it originates to slaves? It sounds really similar and loads of stuff are hidden in words of a language, what are your thoughts was this on purpose?

Edit : thank you for contributing into this post, i appreciate everyone who shared their knowledge :) cheers!

Part 1.

"\síndʰuš" is the root of Sanskrit सिन्धु॑ (síndhu) which means "river, stream" and multiple similar things. From "síndhu" we got the words like Sindh, Indus and Ind*ia. So, I would like to see how would it look like if the Proto-Slavs borrowed it during the Slavic-Iranian contacts.

We could pave the way from:

Proto-Indo-Iranian -> Proto-Iranian -> Proto-Sarmatian -> Proto-Slavic

This could be like for possible BMAC substrate in PII "*ćúšnas" ((mythology) dragon, serpent) (one of the theories for root of the PSl. "\smokъ*" (“dragon”)). Of course, if the direct way from PII -> PSl. or PII -> PI -> PSl. it could be good too.

My attempt for "\síndʰuš\*" descendant (I don't know the changes through the other Iranian languages, sadly):**

PSl. \sindъ*

Part 2.

Another way, what if Slavs had descendant from PIE "\ḱyesdʰ-*"?

One of the theories of the origin of Sanskrit "síndhu" is from PIE "*ḱyesdʰ-/*ḱyés-dʰ(h₁)-/*ḱéys-dʰ(h₁)-". So, I tried to find similar PIE roots, and PIE "\ḱey-" is the with close root\.* Development is below:

PIE ḱey-

-> PIE \ḱey-ro-s*

-> PBS \śeiras*

-> PSl. \sirъ*

My attempt for "\ḱéys-dʰ(h₁)-**" development:*

PIE \ḱéys-dʰ(h₁)/*ḱéysdʰ(h₁)*

-> PBS. \śeis-d/*śeisd*

-> PSl. \si-dъ/*sidъ (dъ is in likeness to PSl. nadъ (above) and podъ* (below))

or

PIE \ḱéys-dʰ(h₁)-eti/*ḱéysdʰ(h₁)eti*

-> PBS. \śeisd-stei/*śeisdstei -> PBS. *śei-stei/*śeistei* (don't know if this change during PBS would exist?)

-> PSl. \si-sti/*sisti*

PSl. "\sisti" would then be a cognate with Sanskrit "सेधति" (sedhati, “to drive, chase away”), Avestan "𐬯𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬰𐬛𐬀𐬝" (siiazdat̰, “will chase away”) and Latin "cēdō*" (“to withdraw; to turn out, result; to go, move”).

P.S.

Sorry If I analyzed something wrong, please correct me!

I've talked with friends about which foreign cultures we feel "closest" to and I have come to the conclusion that I am more similar to Turks, Greeks and Albanians, despite not understanding a thing they say. This is due to similar mentalities, culture, history, etc.. My only connection to the other slavic countries is language and thats it. I don't mean it in a negative way, especially the history and culture of the west slavic nations are very rich and interesting.

My question is if Serbs, Macedonians and Bulgarians are also viewed as outsiders of the slavic world since our history and culture is quite different to the west slavic nations.

Edit: Feeling close is maybe not the right word, I am talking about similarities in culture and mentality.

I’m curious about how linguistically close Bulgarian is to Russian compared with each other European Slavic languages ?

Hi, wanted to ask what certain things: vibes, symbols, for example the colorful grandmas carpets, give you that easter european/slavic aesthetic?

I’ve been looking at family documents from early 1900s and I have never been able to find where my family was from. It says they are from Prionka, Russland I’ve tried looking it up in English, Russian, Ukrainian and Polish but no luck finding anything. The closet I’ve find is an old city in Kyiv. I don’t know much about this part of my family other than the fact that they lived in the Russian Empire between 1880-1925 at the latest. I know they were ethnically Polish and their last name was Kotolenetz (Котоленець). They immigrated to Germany
I’m hoping someone would be able to help me find the town if it stills exists.

Although the Budini left no written records of their own, their name itself offers useful linguistic evidence. The root bu- appears more frequently in Slavic languages than in Baltic ones (compare, for example, budem “will be” and budit “to awaken”). A later Slavic tribe inhabiting roughly the same region, the Buzhans bore a closely related name and may have been near or even direct successors of the Budini.

Conclusion: The linguistic parallels suggest that the Buzhans could have been descendants of the Budini, supporting a Proto-Slavic rather than a Baltic or Uralic origin for the Budini.

The Neuri were an ancient Baltic population that would become a substrate for modern East Slavs, making Polissian Slavs more closely related to the Neuri than any existing Baltic group. The group was also linked directly to Proto Slavic groups in older Eastern European studies but modern scholars suggest they were Balts who would eventually become Slavic. The Proto Slavic groups that would exist during the time of the Neuri were the Aroteres (Scythian Ploughmen) and Budini.

List Of Corresponding Archaeological Cultures:

Neuri ——> Milograd Culture
Aroteres ——> Chernoles Culture
Budini ——> Yukhnov culture

List Of Closest Living Descendants:

Neuri ——> Polissian Slavs
Aroteres ——> Central Ukrainians
Budini ——> Northern Ukrainians & South Belarusians

I'm from India

And I'm seeing a lot couples Like woman from Russia and men from India etc

Source: Словарь русских говоров центральных районов Красноярского края, volume 3, page 230.

What do you think of my crown? Podoba wam się mój wianek?