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We have a lot of turkish/altaic, or just old bulgarian (before our tribe came to the Balkans) words. I'm no historian, and even they do not agree, so take my words with a grain of salt.

I have noticed that we have for a lot of things - two words, one slavanian - that russian/serbian/polish/etc would understand, and one turkish-like that arab would understand.

Slovenian here and It's completely same for me.

Although I do understand southern Slavic languages and I also managed to pick some words from Czech in the course of my life.

I wonder if it seems close to the languages one is familiar with.

My native tongue is Romanian and I grew up on the border with Serbia - I used to speak Serbian near-fluently (but lost it after 2+ decades of not using it); I also know a little bit of Russian. This language seemed similar to Serbian to me.

Yep, totally agree. I'm Russian too and language is completely understandable.

Same here... it feels like Ukranian to me, but the only Slavic language I know is Russian.