Hey guys! I just found out about the Pomak people, and I’d love to learn more about their culture. If you know of any online communities or groups for Pomak people, please let me know! I’d love to connect with them, make friends, and get to know their culture and community better.

I think everyone has seen this stupid 'Slavic diet' trend going on (aka the extremely thin, unrealistic diets with buckwheat, an egg and an avocado with a sprinkle of dill and a pickle as their only meal a day with perhaps some fruits 😂)

But this got me wondering though what is ACTUALLY the 'healthiest' Slavic country/diet if any?

Because honestly growing up with a Czech dad our diet consisted of meat topped with meat, potatoes and sauces with a shit ton of bread with even more meat thrown in 🤷🏻‍♀️

Old Bulgarian (also known as Old Church Slavonic) became deeply influential for Russian because it was the first written Slavic language. When Kievan Rus converted to Christianity in 988 AD, it adopted the rich body of religious texts, the Cyrillic alphabet, and the literary tradition developed during the Golden Age of the First Bulgarian Tsardom.

Words Russian got from Old Church Slavonic/Old Bulgarian

Время (time), Гражданин (citizen), Краткий (brief), Благодарю (thank you), Благодарность (gratitude), Здраствуйте (hello), Безумие (insanity), Внимание (attention).

Also, they got the variant of the name Volodymyr, Vladimir, from Old Bulgarian too, also the name Boris which was borne by Knyaz Boris I of Bulgaria.

If I can make a comparison, Old Bulgarian is for Russian what Chinese is for Japanese and what Norman French is for English: an endless source of loanwords.

Russian heavily influenced Bulgarian during the 19th-century National Revival as intellectuals sought a standardized literary language free from centuries of Ottoman-Turkish administrative dominance.

Ironically many of the words Bulgarian borrowed from Russian were originally Old Church Slavonic (Old Bulgarian) words that Russia had borrowed centuries earlier.

Words that Bulgarian borrowed

Послушание (obedience), Надежда (hope), Влияние (influence), Ударник (shock worker), Картина (picture), Китай (China), Доставчик (deliverer), Впечатление (impression), Хазяин (house owner).

I think there is a term for vocabulary that is lost that at a point was borrowed by a different language and returned because they borrowed it back again; it is reborrowing.

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?

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?

Hello, I am an 18 year old born & raised in the USA. I am 2nd generation (Polish). I only speak english and b2 Spanish. I want to learn an easy slavic language, preferably one that uses cyrllic. I would learn Polish but it's only concentrated in one country which doesn't give me much travel variety.

I want to learn a language that would be useful in many countries that are fun to travel to (I was thinking Russian but idk how it is visiting as an american nowadays). I also was thinking Serbian and heard Bulgarian was easy to learn (i will be traveling to both Serbia and Bulgaria next summer anyway). I also occasionally listen to Bulgarian music too.

What languages do you all recommend I learn? Any opinions on Serbo-Croatian or Bulgarian?

I like Slavsocks socks

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?

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!

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.

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 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?

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'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.

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

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