Russian vocabulary is dying
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learn_russianAt the beginning of the 20th century dictionaries of Russian and English languages contained approximately same amount of words: 200 thousand. In the 1930s English dictionaries had already 600 thousand, while Russian contracted to 88 thousand…
The Russian vocabulary of the 19th century had 153 words with the root LUB (love); now there are only 41 such words. “Love” has shrunk by three fourths...
This data has been collected by philosopher and linguist Mikhail Epstein.
Complete article (in Russian):
http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2009/075/22.html
The Russian vocabulary of the 19th century had 153 words with the root LUB (love); now there are only 41 such words. “Love” has shrunk by three fourths...
This data has been collected by philosopher and linguist Mikhail Epstein.
Complete article (in Russian):
http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2009/075/22.html
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