Is the dev from Ukraine?

[Shootme]

Ukraine has a lot of good game devs, like Ostriv, STALKER and more.
Was wondering where this dev is from?

[Faegir Dariusson]

If I remember correctly it is polish game.

[MiB]

Originally posted by Faegir Dariusson:

If I remember correctly it is polish game.

That explains why I heard Polish in background noise xD

[datCookie]

Slavic is Polish :)

[deathmaster snikch]

i hear from a polish teacher that ukranian and polish were very similar

[Slavic Magic]

Originally posted by MiB:

Originally posted by Faegir Dariusson:

If I remember correctly it is polish game.

That explains why I heard Polish in background noise xD

Actually it was recorded in a German city as far as I know, so funny that.

[eien no shikaku 永遠の刺客]

Originally posted by deathmaster snikch:

i hear from a polish teacher that ukranian and polish were very similar

Ukrainian and Polish are not similar, Ukrainian is more similar to Russian than Polish but people often mistake Slavic languages...

[Afghanicus]

Originally posted by Slavic Magic:

Originally posted by MiB:

That explains why I heard Polish in background noise xD

Actually it was recorded in a German city as far as I know, so funny that.

So that makes sense why there were polish voices, someones gotta do the hard work

[Maviba]

Originally posted by eien no shikaku 永遠の刺客:

Originally posted by deathmaster snikch:

i hear from a polish teacher that ukranian and polish were very similar

Ukrainian and Polish are not similar, Ukrainian is more similar to Russian than Polish but people often mistake Slavic languages...

Actually, that's not quite true.

Due to historical relations and geographical proximity, the influence of the Polish-Lithuanian language is more pronounced in the north-west of Ukraine,
while the influence of the Russian language is stronger, especially in the south-east of the country.

The north-west of Ukraine, including the regions of Volhynia, Galicia and Podolia, had a greater influence by the Polish-Lithuanian language due to close ties with the Kingdom of Poland and later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
In these regions, historical and cultural influences from Poland and Lithuania are more evident.

In south-eastern Ukraine, especially in the bordering regions of Russia, the influence of the Russian language is more pronounced due to the long shared history and the Soviet occupation.
In this region, one finds a larger Russian-speaking population and a stronger spread of Russian culture and language.

So the language situation in Ukraine is very complex and there are many regional differences.

[ManBearPig]

I speak polish even though l live in Texas. My family emigrated from Poland when I was a year old. We spoke Polish at home and that’s how I learned and my mom taught me to read and write although very limited. I can watch a YouTube video of someone speaking Ukrainian and understand 70% (maybe more) the rest I can piece together to get the entire picture of what is being said. If I watch a Russian YouTube video I can’t understand anything maybe a few words here and there but not enough to know what’s going on. Now the writing in both Ukraine and Russian is totally not readable to me. But spoken I definitely have no trouble understanding Ukrainian. So if me a person that had no formal training in polish can understand Ukrainian then I am sure someone from the region will do even better especially when they start using slang or pop culture stuff. So spoken Polish and Ukrainian is very similar written is not.

[Landsknecht _]

Originally posted by Afghanicus:

Originally posted by Slavic Magic:

Actually it was recorded in a German city as far as I know, so funny that.

So that makes sense why there were polish voices, someones gotta do the hard work

those hard working people are probably the reason why Poland is such an economic powerhouse in europe! oh wait... ;)

[Elwyrah]

Polish must be a very hard language; I could not pronounce it! :)

[rockit]

Originally posted by mikepkt:

I speak polish even though l live in Texas. My family emigrated from Poland when I was a year old. We spoke Polish at home and that’s how I learned and my mom taught me to read and write although very limited. I can watch a YouTube video of someone speaking Ukrainian and understand 70% (maybe more) the rest I can piece together to get the entire picture of what is being said. If I watch a Russian YouTube video I can’t understand anything maybe a few words here and there but not enough to know what’s going on. Now the writing in both Ukraine and Russian is totally not readable to me. But spoken I definitely have no trouble understanding Ukrainian. So if me a person that had no formal training in polish can understand Ukrainian then I am sure someone from the region will do even better especially when they start using slang or pop culture stuff. So spoken Polish and Ukrainian is very similar written is not.

Polish is my native tongue and maybe I'm retarded but when I hear Ukrainians speaking in their language I can pick up a word or two that sounds similar in Polish, but that's pretty much all -- so your argument doesn't make any sense to me.

It is like drawing similarities between the other two languages that I know -- English and French. Surely there are certain words that have the same origin/meaning and they are even pronounced almost in the same manner, but English speaker (who don't speak French) will have a pretty hard time trying to understand French speaker and vice-versa (unless we're talking about a extremely rudimentary conversation).

Slovak is way more understandable for Poles than the Ukrainian language -- which, as much as Ukrainians hate to admit it (especially in the current political situation) has much more in common with Russian and Belarusian than with Polish.

[Doug_Dimmadome]

I think we tend to get into the weeds of nationalism when we start discussing similarities between languages, especially slavic ones. I can't blame people for saying "No! Ukrainian is nothing like Polish!", but the linguistic reality is over centuries all the slavic cultures intermingled enough that each has at least *some* similarity. Western Ukraine was at one point Polish territory, then Austrian territory, then Russian, then finally it's own. It's absolutely a unique culture and language, but to say there is no Polish or Russian influence is just wrong.

It doesn't make it any lesser or anything, just a consequence of the cultural intermingling. I mean look at English, essentially a language born to German and French parents and then raised by a Celtic nanny.

[Not Known]

The game is polished :D