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From: kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz (Paul J. Kriha)
Subject: Re: Serbian & Croatian
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In article <3tgurl$psk@viking.mpr.ca>,
   kondrak@newshost (Grzegorz Kondrak) wrote:
>T. Kocsis (kocsis@org.chem.ethz.ch) wrote:
>: Another interesting point of Gaj's work on Croatian was his
>: choice in shaping the grammar of Croatian: he followed the
>: steps of the Slovakian grammar developers to make his
>: language readable for his fellow Slavs, the Czechs and Slo-
>: vakian.
>
>I read somewhere that because of it's central position, there is mutual
>intellegibility between Slovak and every other Slavic language. 
>I know this is true for Polish. How about Serbian/Croatian?
>
>G.K.

Hm. I think it's like saying because Low German speakers
live in a 'central position' there is mutual intelligibility
betw. LG and Swedish or Danish, LG and say OberOestereich 
German or English.

Paul JK.

