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Are the vast majority of Ukrainians more proficient in Russian than Ukrainian?
After researching this a bit, I'm posting an answer to my own question, but I want to say that I welcome more answers, especially if they bring other pieces of evidence.
A 2008 Gallup poll asked ...
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Are the vast majority of Ukrainians more proficient in Russian than Ukrainian?
Looking at this from a software developer's perspective, there's a significant factor here that you may have overlooked. Translating a program or a website is a significant amount of work, testing, ...
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Is Russian the most diverged Slavic language?
Your question shows that you are unfamiliar with both Russian and other slavic languages.
To add to Anixx's answer:
Think:
misliet - misliet - misliec - misliti - misliti - mislityi - mislyati - dumat
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Are the vast majority of Ukrainians more proficient in Russian than Ukrainian?
The answer is certainly no.
We cannot say that this is true for the "vast" majority (say 80%), but maybe this is 50/50. In the south and east, people speak better russian due to their roots (...
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Is Russian the most diverged Slavic language?
You have just picked Russian synonyms that are not related to the words in the other Slavic languages that you picked. You can pick other synonyms.
Think: мыслить (myslit')
I have: я имею (ya imeyu)
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At some point, was г/Г pronounced in Russian like it still is in Ukrainian (somewhat akin to h/H in hotel, i.e. /h/)? Or is it purely regional?
The pronunciation of г as /h/ is purely regional (Southern dialects) by now; diachronically, it used to be /g/ in Proto-Slavic and that changed into /h/ in some languages (Ukrainian, Belorussian, ...
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Why does Russian not vary from region to region?
Admittedly anecdotal observations:
Well-known minor dialectal differences are бордюр/поребрик and ластик/резинка, typically attributed to Russia vs. Saint-Petersbourg (the latter often perceived as ...
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Is Russian the most diverged Slavic language?
It's totally ok to compare and contrast different languages based on the factors other than their genetic affinity. Even though you'd hardly find a serious linguist questioning the status of Russian ...
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From Russian/Slavonic diglossia to modern Russian (via French/Russian?)
In the imperial period the upper classes were largely bilingual in Russian and French, with French as the prestige language. In the early Soviet period the prestige language was German, the official ...
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Trilled R between a vowel and a consonant
You don't say what your acoustic models are, so perhaps the individual saying the words are not producing trills. Here are some examples of the Finnish word perkele, järvi, terve and sormi. You can't ...
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When did other slavic nations adopt the Latin-inspired look of printed Cyrillic pioneered in Russia?
The adoption of Latin-type letterforms in regions using the Cyrillic script outside of the Russian Empire varied widely depending on the country and context. I will aim to provide a broad overview of ...
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