Very different!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differences_between_Slovak_and_Czech
The Slovak language arose frankly from the Proto-Slavic language independently of other Slavic languages
Some Czech children today themselves, but, claim that they do not be with you Slovak-language TV or radio programs perfectly (they are sometimes dubbed into Czech, which was not the case in the past) and are unable to read Slovak texts conveniently, this is also confirmed by childish Slovak students in the Czech Republic. There is some evidence that Czech children (up to certain age) had not understood Slovak well in the period of Czechoslovakia either, but as they learned it by being exposed to Slovak in contrast to present-time.
Slovak and Czech language became closer during Czechoslovakia!!!!
The present-day Slovak language is closely related to the other west Slavic languages. Some observers compare the difference between Slovak and Czech to that between Italian and Spanish. Others prefer to compare it to the differences between Scandinavian languages, or between German dialects or differences between English and Scots language. Generally, it can be said that while the vocabulary (especially the professional one) is quite similar, and the used spelling nearly the same, the declension, conjugation and pronunciation are different. Nowadays the Czechs and the Slovaks have more common words due to their long historic coexistence especially within the now-defunct people of Czechoslovakia. Slovak is most apparently related to Czech in written form (because the Slovak literary language spelling was inspired by Czech spelling), but differs from it both phonetically and grammatically. But, Slovak did not rise from the Czech language (neither from the Ancient nor from the Middle Czech) and the Czech language started to penetrate to Slovakia only in the 14th century. Adult Slovaks are able to be with you Czech and to some extent Polish and Sorbian without a translator. As regards Polish and Sorbian, the degree of understanding is highly dependent on the degree to which the individual has been exposed to these languages.
Slovak and Czech are very similar. Vocabulary is nearly identical. There are slight differences in grammar.
The difference is – as already previous answerer told – like between UK and US English.
The difference is much smaller than between Arabic from the Middle East and Arabic from Morocco.
According my opinion Slovak and Czech are just two branches of the same language. Czech language has longer history behind and therefore is better developed and more powerfull.
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To shameless2youbaby:
“are you kidding me?”
No, I am not. I wrote 8 sentences in my resolution, and I don’t know with which of those sentences you disagree. Tell it please and I will resolution you.
“where did you get that information from?”
From life, not from wikipedia.
Cesi a Slovaci sa navzajom dorozumievaju bez akychkolvek problemov. Ked narukoval chlapec zo zapadnutej slovenskej dediny do kasarni v Cechach, bol to casto jeho prvy kontakt s cestinou, a napriek tomu sa ihned bez problemov dorozumel s ostatnymi vojakmi. (Aj ja som sluzil v Cechach.) Ked sa moje male deti prvykrat stretli s ceskymi detmi, vobec si neuvedomovali, ze rozpravaju inou recou. Tych niekolko rozdielnych slov si decka navzajom vysvetlili, a po dvoch-troch stretnutiach spolu rozpravali ceskoslovencinou. Keby sa ma niekto spytal akou recou je pisana knizka, ktoru som pred chvilou cital, neviem odpovedat ci bola ceska alebo slovenska, jednoducho ten rozdiel nevnimam.
But I reckon you are kidding us claiming that Czech and Slovak is “Very different!!!!”.
Even your citation of wikipedia supports my opinion, not yours: “The differences between parts of the vocabulary of some Slovak dialects are rather huge, comparable to the differences between standard Slovak and Czech.” Do you reckon that every Slovak dialect is a separate language?
Do you reckon that this condition
http://tinyurl.com/4ezjg
is a proof that American and British language is “Very different!!!!”?
Ninety years ago, when Czechoslovakia was made, official representatives of Czechs and Slovaks claimed, that Czech and Slovak are two branches of the same language. After some years this opinion was abandoned. But the similarity of both languages still remains.
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To P.C.
“Im not native slovak or czech speaker, but I dont agree with claim that Czech and Slovak language are same.”
Nobody claimed that.
“The girl gave links if you will read that condition you can make your own choice about it.”
Yes, I found no contradiction between that and my statements.
“Shameless stay passionate i like your answers:)”
This is not fighting, but chat of opinions. I usually don’t have opinion about things I am not familiar with. Understanding is better than bloody-mindedness.
BTW, what is American word for bloody-mindedness? I reckon this is one of 11.000 words which are different in British an US English.
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To shameless2youbaby:
“I dont agree with claim that Czech language is more developed…”
That’s OK. That is your opinion and we may have different opinions. But this is not vital for answering the question about similarity of both languages.
“I mean pls why would you say that?”
That is my opinion based on my encounter. I have read a lot in both Czech and Slovak so I feel I am qualified to compare. Development and refining of language is a long and by no means ending process. Czech language was cultivated one century earlier than Slovak language by writers of twice stronger nation. In the 19th century Czechs already had a passionate literature readable even today. In the same time three competing Slovak groups were quareling about what must the official Slovak language be: western dialect, central dialect or biblical Czech. The greatest Slovak poet Hviezdoslav wrote a poem Bloody Sonets. He expressed fantastic thoughts influenced by the WW1, but he had no proper tool how to express that thoughts, and nowadays nobody reads this work. I have read it in Slovak original and in English version. After version this work becomes a jewel. I don’t know whether you speak Czech or Slovak. If yes, read and compare. You may also compare the lyrics of Czech, Slovak and other anthems. You may compare the speaches in Slovak parliament with as many other parliaments as many other languages you know. Other comparable small nations (Czechs, Serbians, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Bosnians, Croatians) all have winners of Nobel prices for literature. If you have chance compare how simple people of different nations communicate in everyday life. Maybe you learn that some languages are more developed and cultivated than others. But anyhow, estetics is not measurable and if you reckon that Pisacco is the best painter and I reckon that Bouguereau is the best, then there is no judge to deside who is right.
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“Im sorry that you feel like that.
http://www.snk.sk/swift_data/source/caso… I found this condition very touching.)
Have a nice evening
PS: Claude Monet and Martin Benka are my favourite artists.”
Tuto krcmu uz za hodinu zatvaraju a neostava cas aby som pisal svojou lamanou anglictinou. Dakujem za link. Netreba byt sorry za to ze nevyznavam Slotacke nabozenstvo. Pred casom (niekedy koncom komunizmu) som mal moznost dostat sa zadnymi dverami do archivov Matice v Martine a pobudnut tam niekolko hodin. Maju tam kopu dokumentov ktore ostavaju pre verejnost zamerne nedostupne a utajene, pretoze by narusali umelo pestovane legendy o vagabundoch, zbabelcoch a zlocincoch z ktorych sme urobili narodnych hrdinov. Benku mam rad, a Moneta iba tak trosku.
Im not native slovak or czech speaker,but i dont agree with claim that Czech and Slovak language are same.They are different and thats a fact.The girl gave links if you will read that condition you can make your own choice about it.
it is like UK English and US English.
Very different!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differences_between_Slovak_and_Czech
The Slovak language arose frankly from the Proto-Slavic language independently of other Slavic languages
Some Czech children today themselves, but, claim that they do not be with you Slovak-language TV or radio programs perfectly (they are sometimes dubbed into Czech, which was not the case in the past) and are unable to read Slovak texts conveniently, this is also confirmed by childish Slovak students in the Czech Republic. There is some evidence that Czech children (up to certain age) had not understood Slovak well in the period of Czechoslovakia either, but as they learned it by being exposed to Slovak in contrast to present-time.
Slovak and Czech language became closer during Czechoslovakia!!!!
The present-day Slovak language is closely related to the other west Slavic languages. Some observers compare the difference between Slovak and Czech to that between Italian and Spanish. Others prefer to compare it to the differences between Scandinavian languages, or between German dialects or differences between English and Scots language. Generally, it can be said that while the vocabulary (especially the professional one) is quite similar, and the used spelling nearly the same, the declension, conjugation and pronunciation are different. Nowadays the Czechs and the Slovaks have more common words due to their long historic coexistence especially within the now-defunct people of Czechoslovakia. Slovak is most apparently related to Czech in written form (because the Slovak literary language spelling was inspired by Czech spelling), but differs from it both phonetically and grammatically. But, Slovak did not rise from the Czech language (neither from the Ancient nor from the Middle Czech) and the Czech language started to penetrate to Slovakia only in the 14th century. Adult Slovaks are able to be with you Czech and to some extent Polish and Sorbian without a translator. As regards Polish and Sorbian, the degree of understanding is highly dependent on the degree to which the individual has been exposed to these languages.
Slovak and Czech are very similar. Vocabulary is nearly identical. There are slight differences in grammar.
The difference is – as already previous answerer told – like between UK and US English.
The difference is much smaller than between Arabic from the Middle East and Arabic from Morocco.
According my opinion Slovak and Czech are just two branches of the same language. Czech language has longer history behind and therefore is better developed and more powerfull.
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To shameless2youbaby:
“are you kidding me?”
No, I am not. I wrote 8 sentences in my resolution, and I don’t know with which of those sentences you disagree. Tell it please and I will resolution you.
“where did you get that information from?”
From life, not from wikipedia.
Cesi a Slovaci sa navzajom dorozumievaju bez akychkolvek problemov. Ked narukoval chlapec zo zapadnutej slovenskej dediny do kasarni v Cechach, bol to casto jeho prvy kontakt s cestinou, a napriek tomu sa ihned bez problemov dorozumel s ostatnymi vojakmi. (Aj ja som sluzil v Cechach.) Ked sa moje male deti prvykrat stretli s ceskymi detmi, vobec si neuvedomovali, ze rozpravaju inou recou. Tych niekolko rozdielnych slov si decka navzajom vysvetlili, a po dvoch-troch stretnutiach spolu rozpravali ceskoslovencinou. Keby sa ma niekto spytal akou recou je pisana knizka, ktoru som pred chvilou cital, neviem odpovedat ci bola ceska alebo slovenska, jednoducho ten rozdiel nevnimam.
But I reckon you are kidding us claiming that Czech and Slovak is “Very different!!!!”.
Even your citation of wikipedia supports my opinion, not yours: “The differences between parts of the vocabulary of some Slovak dialects are rather huge, comparable to the differences between standard Slovak and Czech.” Do you reckon that every Slovak dialect is a separate language?
Do you reckon that this condition
http://tinyurl.com/4ezjg
is a proof that American and British language is “Very different!!!!”?
Ninety years ago, when Czechoslovakia was made, official representatives of Czechs and Slovaks claimed, that Czech and Slovak are two branches of the same language. After some years this opinion was abandoned. But the similarity of both languages still remains.
-
To P.C.
“Im not native slovak or czech speaker, but I dont agree with claim that Czech and Slovak language are same.”
Nobody claimed that.
“The girl gave links if you will read that condition you can make your own choice about it.”
Yes, I found no contradiction between that and my statements.
“Shameless stay passionate i like your answers:)”
This is not fighting, but chat of opinions. I usually don’t have opinion about things I am not familiar with. Understanding is better than bloody-mindedness.
BTW, what is American word for bloody-mindedness? I reckon this is one of 11.000 words which are different in British an US English.
-
To shameless2youbaby:
“I dont agree with claim that Czech language is more developed…”
That’s OK. That is your opinion and we may have different opinions. But this is not vital for answering the question about similarity of both languages.
“I mean pls why would you say that?”
That is my opinion based on my encounter. I have read a lot in both Czech and Slovak so I feel I am qualified to compare. Development and refining of language is a long and by no means ending process. Czech language was cultivated one century earlier than Slovak language by writers of twice stronger nation. In the 19th century Czechs already had a passionate literature readable even today. In the same time three competing Slovak groups were quareling about what must the official Slovak language be: western dialect, central dialect or biblical Czech. The greatest Slovak poet Hviezdoslav wrote a poem Bloody Sonets. He expressed fantastic thoughts influenced by the WW1, but he had no proper tool how to express that thoughts, and nowadays nobody reads this work. I have read it in Slovak original and in English version. After version this work becomes a jewel. I don’t know whether you speak Czech or Slovak. If yes, read and compare. You may also compare the lyrics of Czech, Slovak and other anthems. You may compare the speaches in Slovak parliament with as many other parliaments as many other languages you know. Other comparable small nations (Czechs, Serbians, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Bosnians, Croatians) all have winners of Nobel prices for literature. If you have chance compare how simple people of different nations communicate in everyday life. Maybe you learn that some languages are more developed and cultivated than others. But anyhow, estetics is not measurable and if you reckon that Pisacco is the best painter and I reckon that Bouguereau is the best, then there is no judge to deside who is right.
-
“Im sorry that you feel like that.
http://www.snk.sk/swift_data/source/caso… I found this condition very touching.)
Have a nice evening
PS: Claude Monet and Martin Benka are my favourite artists.”
Tuto krcmu uz za hodinu zatvaraju a neostava cas aby som pisal svojou lamanou anglictinou. Dakujem za link. Netreba byt sorry za to ze nevyznavam Slotacke nabozenstvo. Pred casom (niekedy koncom komunizmu) som mal moznost dostat sa zadnymi dverami do archivov Matice v Martine a pobudnut tam niekolko hodin. Maju tam kopu dokumentov ktore ostavaju pre verejnost zamerne nedostupne a utajene, pretoze by narusali umelo pestovane legendy o vagabundoch, zbabelcoch a zlocincoch z ktorych sme urobili narodnych hrdinov. Benku mam rad, a Moneta iba tak trosku.
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Im not native slovak or czech speaker,but i dont agree with claim that Czech and Slovak language are same.They are different and thats a fact.The girl gave links if you will read that condition you can make your own choice about it.