--- Benct Philip Jonsson skrzypszy:

> how are questions formed in Slavic langs?

I think other have already replied that question better than I could.


> I know Polish has a question particle _czy_,
> famously borrowed into Esperanto as _chu_.

Yes, but it's not exactly obligatory. What good old Yitzik said about
Ukrainian is equally valid for Polish. It's either _Czy ..._ or
simply a matter of intonation and adding a question mark. Sometimes I
even get the feeling that there's something slightly old-fashioned or
formalistic about _czy_, but I'm not sure about that.

> If so, how might a Romano-Slavic language copy
> this? What does Wenedyk do, Jan?

Now you're asking me to state the utterly obvious! ;)) There are two
ways: either have the declarative sentence preceded by _szy_, or
solve with with intonation only.

On a related note, I've always been quite fond of French "est-ce
que", from Latin EST ECCE ISTUM QUID > [Esk] .

Cheers,
Jan

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed
room with a mosquito."

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