Friday, July 13, 2018

Czech and Slovak

Czech and Slovak are similar languages. They are Slavic languages with a high degree of mutual intelligibility. Here are the numbers from one to ten:

Czech          

jeden            
dva              
tři                 
čtyři            
pět                
šest               
sedm           
osm              
devět            
deset            

Slovak

jeden
dva
tri
štyri
päť
śesť
sedem
osem
deväť
desať

The numbers for one and two are identical, and the others are similar. The numbers five, six, nine and ten end with palatal plosives in Slovak but not in Czech. The list of numbers indicates that Czech and Slovak are closely related.


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