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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IvaPan, post: 5994190, member: 78949&quot;]Thanks, Any! This can explain the Slavic origin of the word &quot;church&quot; in Latvian meaning &quot;a place where fables or fairy tales are told&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I have some contacts form Latvia and their language does not seem close to the Slavic ones I have some knowledge of. I can understand quite a bit in Slovakian and Slovenian, also in Polish and Czech but nothing in Latvian. I don&#039;t speak German but it has always sounded to me somewhat German-ish. But the linguists should know better, I guess <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>B.t.w. the younger generations here do not understand any Russian. It is quite different grammatically from Bulgarian and even the words of common root are not discernible to them because these words are almost always inflected.</p><p>I was surprised to learn a while ago that according to linguists there is the group of Balkan languages that share similarities, which for me is non-sense as I cannot see anything similar between Bulgarian and Greek.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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