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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