Countries in Europe that speak a Slavic language

[EstimatedProphet]

Russia
Ukraine
Czechoslavakia
Bosnia
Estonia
Lithuania
Belarus
Latvia
Romania
Bulgaria
I am pretty sure that's it.

[skooooo]

1. Poland maybe...

I think Polish is slavic.

[EstimatedProphet]

2. Hmmm...could it be...?

:)

[JohnKleeb]

3. yes they are

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. Romanian is a Latin language.

Cousin of Italian and Spanish. Not Slavic.

[skooooo]

6. That's true!

Good point.

[EstimatedProphet]

11. Doesn't it have Slav influences?

I knew it was a romance language, but I thought it had Slavic influences...Oh well.

[JohnKleeb]

5. Czechoslovakia?

they don't exist anymore.
You also forgot Slovenia, Serbia, and the other Balkans countries.
and Moldovia!

[skooooo]

8. There are the Czech people though.

[JohnKleeb]

10. of course

but Slovaks and Czechs are different peoples.

[Fovea]

14. Croats,

Bosnians, and Herzegovinans (who have some exceptionally beautiful women), as well.

[Philosophy]

17. Actually they speak Romanian in Moldova

So they're not Slavic either.

[JohnKleeb]

27. I thought they had their own language

[MrScorpio]

7. Czechoslovakia no longer exists

They split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic

Don't forget Slovenia

[JohnKleeb]

9. yep

Slovenia rules, they opposed the war and the mayor of Lubijana I beleive marched against the it.

[papau]

25. I am impressed! - The inn just over the border from Trieste was in one

of the "family" branches for about a hundred years - until Italy redefined the border to include it in Italy.

One of my many "right of return" locations!


http://www.traveljournals.net/upload/kammtn9(3).jpg

[EstimatedProphet]

12. Oops, I forgot things IN ADDITION TO POLAND!

Are the rest of these countries in the "mother of all coalitions"?

[phaseolus]

13. You Forgot ... GERMANY!!!

Sorbian, or Wendish... I think there's still a few people alive who speak that language...

[Philosophy]

15. Also forgot Serbia, Croatia, and Macedonia

More former Yugoslav republics.

[papau]

16. countries should include more new nations from the former YugoSlavia - ?

:-)

Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia claim a different language from Russian - but I agree they're similiar to/are slavic.

[Philosophy]

19. Actually none of those are Slavic

Estonian is a Finno-Ugric language which isn't even Indo-European, and Lithuanian and Latvian are Baltic languages.

[da_chimperor]

21. Hungarian and Finnish are also in that same language group.

From what I understand, Estonian is very similar to Finnish, but Hungarian is very different even though they're still in the same group.

[papau]

26. Estonia folks are sure they are not Slavic - but "Baltic" language

Lithuania and Latvia have only a veneer of German from the hundreds of years of rule under variations of the knights, and really sound a great deal like Slavic.

Indeed "Baltic" is more closely related to Slav than any other Indo-European sub group - IMHO!

:-)

[President Kerry]

18. not romania, estonia, latvia, lithuania or czech republic

aside from that you're right on!

[reorg]

20. a few minor corrections

Romanian is a Roman, not a Slavic language.

Bosnian is not a language - they speak Serbo-Croatian, just as Serbs and Croats do (only very few, negligable differences between "Serbian" and "Croatian"), thus to be added:

Serbia and Montenegro,
Croatia,
Slovenia.

Macedonia
(Macedonian seems to be somewhat different from Serbo-Croation - don't know anything about it, though).

Czechoslovakia is now actually two countries:

Czech republik (Slavic language: Czech)
Slovakia (Slavic language: Slovakian)

There is a very tiny, but still existing language island in Eastern Germany, where they speak a language completely different from German dialects, which belongs to the Slavic family of languages: Sorbian, therefore:

Germany

hope this helps :-)

[EstimatedProphet]

22. See post #12

[reorg]

24. hm, the great Slavic force

appears to consist mainly of three dirt poor transition states, Poland the Ukraine, Bulgaria, plus three dwarf statelets, with in total less than 5000 troops.

According to globalsecurity.org:



Poland ~2,400 - 2500 (0 by end of 2005?)

Ukraine 1,576
Bulgaria ~485
Czech Republic ~110
Slovakia 105
Macedonia 28


In addition to that, right now the "coalition" consists of seconded military workers from the smallest states in Western Europe (Denmark and Netherlands), the poorest (Portugal) and another transition state (Hungary). The rest is mainly from Baltic statelets and Caspian transitional dictatorships, not to forget the giant islands of Tonga and Singapore and the great military powers Australia and Japan!!!


Netherlands 1,345
Romania 700
Japan ~550
Denmark 496
El Salvador 380
Hungary 300
Australia ~ 250
Mongolia 180
Georgia 159
Azerbaijan 151
Portugal 128
Latvia 122
Lithuania 105
Albania 70
Estonia 55
Tonga ~45
Singapore 33
Kazakhstan 29
Moldova 12


on edit: oops, accidentally cut off the substantial forces of


United Kingdom 8,361
Italy 3,085
South Korea 2,800
Norway 10


http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat_coalition.htm


Why TF can't we use tables here? Would look much better.

[Demeter]

23. Estonia has the Same Roots as Finnish

and both are distantly related to Hungarian--not Slavic at all.