However, Ukrainian Belarusian and Russian still carry large degrees of mutual intelligibility today.
然而,乌克兰语、白俄罗斯语和俄语直到今天仍然具有极大的理解互通性。
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It seems reasonable that the degree of mutual intelligibility would determine whether two ways of speaking are classified as separate languages or as dialects of the same language.
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without intentional study or special effort. It is generally used as the most important criterion for distinguishing languages from dialects, although sociolinguistic factors are often also used.