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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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The eastern Finnish languages cannot be understood by Finns today as contacts to the east have been more or less cut for eight hundred years of Russian history.
The Russian chapter and the Dutch and German in comparison to the "Englishes" seem to show that there are languages that stick out for their excessive use of intonation or at least their intonation use is more overt.
The following explanation was found and posted by a Russian learner of English for the benefit of his fellow learners from Russia and speakers of other Slavonic languages.
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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper
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Support for languages within the system goes beyond that provided by Microsoft Windows -- you could use a Hebrew book under Russian Windows while running with a Spanish user interface.
English and Russian languages are included in the distribution package, modules for other languages created by volunteers are listed below.
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Sveta Romanova,
Intelligence Officer
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He is associated with the Program in Russian and East European Languages and Literatures, the Department of Political Science and a senior fellow at the Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies.
Department of Russian and Polish Languages at Hunter College - Hunter College is the major center of Russian and Slavic studies in the City University of New York.
While written Russian looks completely unrelated to most European the languages, this is because of western unfamiliarity with the Russian Cyrillic alphabet.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Most Siberian Yupik are also fluent in Chukchi and Russian, and these languages seem destined eventually to replace what remains of the diverse Yupik dialects in Siberia.
The reluctance of Russian speakers to learn the languages of the peoples amongst whom they lived contributed to a perception of Russian linguistic 'imperialism' alongside other grievances.
Russian has also had a limited influence on the syntax of some of these languages in the translation of Russian literature, where occasionally the Central Asian syntactic patterns are modified to reflect Russian patterns.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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Almost all museum exhibits are described in Russian although for tidy sums of cash the major museums provide guided tours in English and other languages.
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