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Sinjana wrote:Since we're comparing languages, we're only considering phonemic analyses of the vowels.

Thanks for the brief. My deep apologies to Mr. Es·nd·r Ajpṡop for my irrelevant comment.

Highly personal, but...
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A native Russian ITT, am glad to answer your questions. Sentence order (1) VSO, Head initial, many prefixes, noun-adjective, possessed-possessor, prepositions (5) SOV, Head final, lots of suffixes, adjective-noun, possessor-possessed, postpositions Russian: 3??? Pretty so: SVO is prevalent (but othe...

Wiki still says that it's a suppletion. ...for example, он and его are originally forms of two different Slavic pronouns, онъ 'that one' and и 'this one, he'. (translation from http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Супплетивизм) Also these Russian pronouns show obvious reflexes elsewhere in IE la...

Many thanks to all for the examples! There are many interesting similarities between different languages, even in figurative meanings. Next, what about the declension of personal pronouns in Russian? () (Nom) - (Gen) - (Dat) - (Acc) - (Inst) - (Prep) (1ps) я - меня - мне - меня - мной - обо мне (1pp...

I've always found weird the different roots used for male and female specimen of the same animal (and even for whelps). Russian is rather rich of these: Sheep - баран (♂) - овца (♀) - ягнёнок (baby) Bull (♂) - cow (♀) - бык (♂) - корова (♀) - телёнок (baby) Dog - пёс (♂) - собака (♀) Horse - конь (♂...