Re: Another question to specialists in slavic tongues (Ukrainian/Russian)

From: Paul J Kriha (paul.nospam.kriha_at_paradise.net.nz)
Date: 12/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:07:19 +1300

<vanya6724@my-dejanews.com> wrote in message
news:1103037586.588722.39540@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>
> Ja ne znaju wrote:
> > However, to call this
> > dialect "high" Ukrainian, as the previous poster did, is probably
> something
> > of a misnomer.
>
> By "high" I am referring to the standard dialect used in radio and TV
> broadcasts (by analogy to "Hochdeutsch"), which tends to heavily
> emphasize a vocabulary closer to Polish. I agree this a somewhat
> artificial language.

Wasn't "Hochdeutsch" called "Hoch" because it's spoken
in the "high" country not near the ocean in the "low" country?

> > My communication with my wife takes place in Russian with the usual
> > Ukrainian loanwords as is general in the area. In my accent, I try
> to use
> > standard Russian pronunciation, although it is obviously the accent
> of a
> > Frenchman. I jokingly refer to our dialect as Ruskrainian.
>
> Ruskrainian is usually called "Surzhik" and is the real spoken language
> of most of Ukraine. The mixed dialect of Belorus is called "trasyanka."
> There is probably also a mix of Surzhik and trasyanka along the
> Uke-Byelo border but I don't know what that would be called.

Suryanka? :-)

Paul JK

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