mleku on Nostr: from my grounding in southern slavic languages i understand imediately this is a ...

from my grounding in southern slavic languages i understand imediately this is a negative expression, "mala" means small, and cognate to it is malicious meaning evil... oh and "ka" at the end of a word makes it feminine... the southern slavic tongues are very latinic but have a deep connection to the greek, both in the script devised by the students of Kiril and Metodiy and many of the common constructions in short, their latinic component was overlaid after the original bulgarian and then the greek was on top of that and then the latin after that, this is why the modern forms have a heavy latinic influence but the grammars are not, in the west it's based on the germanic syntax and in the east it's the archaic bulgarian and it should be notid that the most ancient form of writing thus far discovered was in Bulgaria, the Vinca artifacts