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« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2011, 03:00:43 AM » |
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Б and б are the same letter. pronounced like 'b'
в is pronounced like 'v'
At least that's how it is in Russian. Don't know about other Slavic languages.
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« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2011, 04:24:44 AM » |
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Б and б are the same letter. pronounced like 'b'
в is pronounced like 'v'
At least that's how it is in Russian. Don't know about other Slavic languages.
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« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2011, 08:46:24 AM » |
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Б is the capital letter and б is the small one.
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« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2011, 09:20:04 AM » |
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Its sound is close to the i in milk. Like i with a twist. |
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« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2011, 09:25:22 AM » |
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Its sound is close to the i in milk. Like i with a twist. that makes sense!!!!!! Thanks so much! Next question: The last "о" in a word seems to be pronounced like "aaa", is this the case? |
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« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2011, 09:33:34 AM » |
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Some unstressed vowels are pronounced differently to vowels in the emphasised syllable. So a stressed o is a clear o, an unstressed o is more like a muffled a. A stressed e is a clear e, an unstressed e is ye.
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« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2011, 09:53:39 AM » |
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The first is pronounced b (as in boy), the second is known as the "hard sign", a silent letter which determines the pronunciation of the consonant that preceded it. This letter remains in Church Slavonic and in pre-revolutionary Russian, but is no longer used in modern Russian.
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« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2011, 09:57:06 AM » |
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The first is pronounced b (as in boy), the second is known as the "hard sign", a silent letter which determines the pronunciation of the consonant that preceded it. This letter remains in Church Slavonic and in pre-revolutionary Russian, but is no longer used in modern Russian.
Oh, I see. Thank you so much! I have books from pre-revolutionary Russia and trying to make out the words is such a mind-twister, and now I know why! |
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« Reply #12 on: July 05, 2011, 11:04:43 AM » |
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Wait until you tangle with the old Slavonic script - something like 40 letters in the alphabet, and a multitude of diacritics and abbreviations! That'll keep you out of mischief.   Indeed. One of the reasons I bought the Old Orthodox Prayer Book was to help in reading Cyrillic script based on the Slavonic I already knew from transliterated Latin letters. I was totally unprepared for abbreviations. Thankfully I found a pdf file somewhere that has all the major ones (and some minor!) written out in full. |
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« Reply #13 on: July 05, 2011, 02:04:38 PM » |
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Some unstressed vowels are pronounced differently to vowels in the emphasised syllable. So a stressed o is a clear o, an unstressed o is more like a muffled a. A stressed e is a clear e, an unstressed e is ye.
In Russian pronunciation only. |
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« Reply #14 on: July 05, 2011, 02:17:43 PM » |
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In Russian pronunciation only.
And not even everywhere in Russia. The region I do fieldwork in does not show this shift of unstressed /o/ > /a/. |
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« Reply #15 on: July 05, 2011, 03:01:28 PM » |
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Wait until you tangle with the old Slavonic script - something like 40 letters in the alphabet, and a multitude of diacritics and abbreviations! That'll keep you out of mischief. Indeed. One of the reasons I bought the Old Orthodox Prayer Book was to help in reading Cyrillic script based on the Slavonic I already knew from transliterated Latin letters. I was totally unprepared for abbreviations. Thankfully I found a pdf file somewhere that has all the major ones (and some minor!) written out in full. Can we get this PDF? |
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« Reply #16 on: July 05, 2011, 10:47:03 PM » |
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Wait until you tangle with the old Slavonic script - something like 40 letters in the alphabet, and a multitude of diacritics and abbreviations! That'll keep you out of mischief. Indeed. One of the reasons I bought the Old Orthodox Prayer Book was to help in reading Cyrillic script based on the Slavonic I already knew from transliterated Latin letters. I was totally unprepared for abbreviations. Thankfully I found a pdf file somewhere that has all the major ones (and some minor!) written out in full. Those abbreviations are interesting, I get a lot of them and then some make me go, um, I have to figure that out.. it's not like there is an slavonic language school near me lol |
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« Reply #17 on: July 06, 2011, 12:59:03 PM » |
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Here you are.
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« Reply #18 on: July 06, 2011, 01:19:09 PM » |
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Michal beat me to it. That's it.
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« Reply #19 on: July 20, 2011, 01:20:23 AM » |
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You all have been so helpful!!! I have one more question: What is this song about? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nswGj4j5xes&feature=channel_video_titleIs it Russian or Belorussian? I see a logo on the top left that I believe says "Belarus" Thanks! |
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« Reply #20 on: July 20, 2011, 07:12:35 AM » |
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It's from the Belarusian TV but it's in Russian.
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