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, Ukrainian shares 70% common vocabulary with Polish, 66% with Slovak, and 62% with Russian. Furthermore, Tyschenko identified 82 grammatical and phonetic features of the Ukrainian tongue - Polish, Czech and Slovak share upwards of 20 of these characteristics with Ukrainian, and 11 are shared with Russian. A number of now extinct tongues once existed within these groups, such as Slovincian in the Lekhitic subgroup or the Old Novgorod dialect within the Northeast section. In contrast to other dialects of Slovak, Eastern dialects (so-called Slovjak) are less intelligible with Czech and more with Polish and Rusyn. |
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