Dear colleagues, I have computed the data on the frequency of occurrence of phonemes in the sound chain of 111 world languages and I found the data on 42 languages in literature. However, I failed to find any data of the frequency of occurrnce of sounds in Old Russian. I wonder if there were published these data? May be some American slavist got it published in some local working papers? If the OLd Russian "Russkaja pradva, Povest' Vremennyh Let" and other OLd RUssian texts have not been computed, then I may do it, if I see the interest among the world linguists. Surely, after computing Old Russian texts, we can investigate the sound picture of Old Russian and compare the OLd Russian sound picture to those of modern Slavonic languages to find out the similarities. So far, our investigations showed that modern Russian is closer to Ukrainian, then to Belorussian, then Czech and so on. I guess it is interesting to find out the phonological distances between Old Russian and Russian, or the other Slavonic languages. Unfortunately, I failed to find a bursary to travel to the linguistic congress in Prague where I wanted to share my ideas on languages distances between Slawonic, as well as Tungus-Manchurian, Paleo-Asiatic, Turkic, Finno-Ugric and some other language families. I'd very much appreciate hearing your opinion to my e-mail address: yutamb@hotmail.com Remain yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia
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