Hello there fellow lifelong learners
I am seeking any discussions that would involve the czech, slovak, Polish, Ukrainian, Belorusian, Latinka languages and culture
I have a very old letter that turned up that was written by my great-grandmother. I have since been trying to translate it from Internet translators, along with dictionaries I have checked out from the library but cannot find what language she is speaking.
I am finding commonalities in these languages having similar words such as tak, jak, etc., but am assuming this is because they are all SLAVIC LANGUAGES, wether eastern or western slavic, they nonetheless share similar words. Anyone's thoughts on this?
If any of you are from the carpathian region, I would like to hear about this area, she was from the N.E. section of what was at one time Hungary (Ung), but I don't think this is where she was originally from.
I am starting to think she is speaking in a romanized/latinized version of Ukrainian, such as Latinka, anyone know about this language?
She uses words such as Jaka, Aha, Muj, Tak, Jak, Jaha, Mam, Tim, Vam Vas, Taki to name a few but these take up only a small percent of the letter leaving me unable to find the majority of the other words in other languages that I have searched in through the translators in books and online (czech, slovak, Ukrainian, Russian), even Romany gypsy and Yiddish!
Is it possible she may be writing in some romanized/latinized Russian, Ukrainian, Belorusian? I think this when I see words like sdave, jrazdva, sdvavi, nasztanye, cejak...
I also realize there are other languages from the region I am speaking of in the Carpathian Mountains, like the langugages of the carpathian-rusyns and Lemko's.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Xenia
"what French word describes the color of this page's background?" is the question just before I hit "send message"
the answer is BLANC, I lived in France as a child, my favorite dessert was Blanc Mange, BLANC is WHite, Mange is "to eat"
The page is Blanc (white)
I am seeking any discussions that would involve the czech, slovak, Polish, Ukrainian, Belorusian, Latinka languages and culture
I have a very old letter that turned up that was written by my great-grandmother. I have since been trying to translate it from Internet translators, along with dictionaries I have checked out from the library but cannot find what language she is speaking.
I am finding commonalities in these languages having similar words such as tak, jak, etc., but am assuming this is because they are all SLAVIC LANGUAGES, wether eastern or western slavic, they nonetheless share similar words. Anyone's thoughts on this?
If any of you are from the carpathian region, I would like to hear about this area, she was from the N.E. section of what was at one time Hungary (Ung), but I don't think this is where she was originally from.
I am starting to think she is speaking in a romanized/latinized version of Ukrainian, such as Latinka, anyone know about this language?
She uses words such as Jaka, Aha, Muj, Tak, Jak, Jaha, Mam, Tim, Vam Vas, Taki to name a few but these take up only a small percent of the letter leaving me unable to find the majority of the other words in other languages that I have searched in through the translators in books and online (czech, slovak, Ukrainian, Russian), even Romany gypsy and Yiddish!
Is it possible she may be writing in some romanized/latinized Russian, Ukrainian, Belorusian? I think this when I see words like sdave, jrazdva, sdvavi, nasztanye, cejak...
I also realize there are other languages from the region I am speaking of in the Carpathian Mountains, like the langugages of the carpathian-rusyns and Lemko's.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Xenia
"what French word describes the color of this page's background?" is the question just before I hit "send message"
the answer is BLANC, I lived in France as a child, my favorite dessert was Blanc Mange, BLANC is WHite, Mange is "to eat"
The page is Blanc (white)