Church Slavic Language

mishuk   Mon Jan 08, 2007 11:11 am GMT
Which countries speak language long out of use except in prayers and lithurgies? I mean Tserkovnoslavyansky language. Does any Slavic nation speak like Az yesm' (I am) , Ty yesi (you are), On yest' (He is) etc. -I mean the verb "to be" in present form?
Do you know Slavic languages that still use obsolete tenses like Aorit, Perfect, Imperfect, Plusquamperfect of Church Slavic Language?
Guest   Mon Jan 08, 2007 11:27 am GMT
С Рождеством Христовым и С наступающим Новым Годом
S Roždestvom Khristovym i S nastupayuščim Novym Godom

Честита Коледа!

for yesterday....
augustin717   Tue Jan 09, 2007 2:59 am GMT
There are some grammatical calques, as I know, in Romanian, especially older and liturgical Romanian.
Even the fact that Romanian conserved a more synthetic carachter can be, attributed to a certain extent to the Slavonic language.
As for the words, there are plenty.
ikan   Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:30 pm GMT
Literary Serbo-Croatian based standards, Bulgarian and Macedonian all use aorist, imperfect, plusquamperfect. In Croatian everyday speech only perfect tense is used though:

Aorist: On skoči - He had (just) jumped
Imperfect: On skakaše - He kept jumping
Plusquamperfect: On je bio skočio/ On bijaše skočio - He had jumped
Perfect: On je skočio - He jumped
Linguist   Tue Jan 09, 2007 2:16 pm GMT
As far as I know, Bulgarians still use Аз for "I, me" and Church Slavinic is actually ancient Bulgarian, if I'm not mistaken...
...   Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:05 am GMT
Linguist, you're absolutely right.