I'm not sure, but I think the reason I understand all of this is because of the 4000 or so acid trip i've taken. Boy, i'm gald Christman is over.
Ok, now I know. Well since I live in Croatia, I speak Croatian. To you it would probably sould like russian or something. It's a slavenian language.
It has roman script. And we usually writte everything as it sounds. There are no spelling issues There are a few exeptions, but very few.
"Bog te blagoslovio" this is singular plural would be "Bog vas blagoslovio" Ok "God" is "Bog" "te"...is a form of the word "ti" which means "you" "vas" is a form of the word "vi" which is a plural of "you", you don't have a plural for "you" in english. and "blagoslovio" is a form of the word "blagosloviti" wich means "to bless"
It's not just Croatian. Serbia and Bosnia use a very similar language, sort of like mild dialects of the same language. This phrase would be identical in all of them.
The changing of words is mostly taken from Latin I think. As for sentance structure. It's basicly like "God you bless" I don't know if this is similar to Japan or not, but our culture never had any historical Japanese influence. Anyway, this is kind of a "lyrical" phrase, not really a good representative of a typical sentance structure.
but i have heard that countries in the balkans have some asian influence due to the invasions by the huns and the avars. is it true
Here is the thing. Hungary is our northen neighbour. Hungarian people have asian roots. Mongolian roots. But their language is totally different from any other European language. The Asian influence in Balkan does not come from them, but from Turks, that have ocupied this territory a few centuries ago. Their influence is minimal in Croatia, but Bosnia was influenced a lot because it was entierly under Turkish occupation in those days. The result is that Bosnians are mostly muslims, even though they are allso slavenian. They were forced to muslim religion around 17th century. Croatia was the border of the turkish empire, and was not really ocupied. Croatia is a catholic country. Croatia was mostly culturaly influenced by Austria and Hungary (it was a part of Austro-Hungary or whatever was it called in english) from the north. And the south of Croatia (Dalmatia).... you know dalmatian dogs, is influenced by Italy (food, language and a lot more things)
No problem... I just hope you Americans don't see us as some kind of primitive barbarians or something..
Well..my accent was on the word "primitive", and I used the word "barbarian", just to put something with the word "primitive"
