is separated by geography and much time of divergence
Slovenian is South Slavic and Russian is East Slavic. Chart I can't get to post.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Slavic_languages_tree.svg
Map of Slavic languages:
I spent two plus weeks in Yugoslavia in 1981, not that long after Tito died. It was an interesting trip in that my exe and I visited two college friends, a couple, from Cal. One was a Cal PhD archeologist doing dissertation fieldwork in Yugoslavia and the other was a Cal Phd Linguist then writing her dissertation whi is now a full professor at the University of Toronto. The archeologist had lived with his parents in Yugoslavia growing up as the father was with State Department in Yugoslavia and in 1981 was with State Department in Romania. So both has residency and spoke Serbo-Croatian fluently and the linguist noted the differences in the various dialects (her PhD work was about the Francophone-Anglophone issues in Canada, she is a French Jew born in Mexico city and raised in Quebec,
Yugoslavia was nothing like expected and I am disappointed never to have returned after all these years. We traveled into Yugoslavia from Greece by train and had a car for two weeks. We took a final road trip from Belgrade to Dubrovnik and then up to Split where our "local" friends flew back to Belgrade. We traveled the coast as far as Opatija, Croatia (for Eastern Orthodox Easter) then traveled to Ljubljana, Slovenia. We visited some incredible karst caves in Slovenia and left the car - Zastava 101 - in Ljubljana and went by bus through the Dolomite Alps and into Trieste.
Beautiful part of the world and the people were very friendly. The only other "tourists" we met were there was a tour group of Russians at the hotel where we stayed in Dubrovnik.
I am obviously not a linguist but Slovenian and Russian are on different branches of the Slavic language tree.
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