Pavel A. da Mek girs'epset':

| > how are questions formed in Slavic langs?
| >
| > I know Polish has a question particle _czy_,
| > famously borrowed into Esperanto as _chu_.
| > Is this parallelled in the other Slavlangs?
|
| In Czech, the interrogative sentences differ from the declarative
sentences
| only by the raised tone at the end of the sentence.

In Russian, the interrogative sentence ("general question") differs from the
declarative one by a different intonation pattern. Usage of the particle
_li_ is peculiar to the higher register of speech and is probably an OChS
borrowing, as we see it widely used in Bulgarian: _imash li moliv_ 'do you
have a pencil?'.
In Ukrainian, both intonation pattern change and question particle _chy_ are
equally valid.

-- Yitzik