Search results
Czech–Slovak dialects in yellow and gold (A/C), within West Slavic. The Czech–Slovak languages (or Czecho-Slovak) are a subgroup within the West Slavic languages comprising the Czech and Slovak languages . Most varieties of Czech and Slovak are mutually intelligible, forming a dialect continuum (spanning the intermediate Moravian dialects ...
As the official language of the Czech Republic (a member of the European Union since 2004), Czech is one of the EU's official languages and the 2012 Eurobarometer survey found that Czech was the foreign language most often used in Slovakia.
- 10.7 million (2015)
People also ask
What is a Czech Slovak language?
What is the difference between Czech and Slovak?
Are Czech and Slovak related?
Are Czech and Slovak dialects mutually intelligible?
Although most dialects of Czech and Slovak are mutually intelligible (see Comparison of Slovak and Czech), eastern Slovak dialects are less intelligible to speakers of Czech and closer to Polish and East Slavic, and contact between speakers of Czech and speakers of the eastern dialects is limited.
The Czech–Slovak languages (or Czecho-Slovak) are a subgroup within the West Slavic languages comprising the Czech and Slovak languages.
Within West Slavic, Czech and Slovak separated from Polish around the 10th to 12th centuries. Some other changes took place during roughly the 10th century: the disappearance and vocalization of yers according to Havlík’s Yer Law ( bъzъ > bez, bъza > bza ( gen. ), later bezu 'elder, lilac');
Classification. West Slavic is usually divided into three subgroups— Czech–Slovak, Lechitic and Sorbian —based on similarity and degree of mutual intelligibility. The groupings are as follows: [3] The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology classifies the West Slavic languages within their Glottolog database as follows: [4]