2007-03-09 18:36:46 · 7 answers · asked by jason_zissa 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Czech belongs to West Slavic languages is a subdivision of the Slavic language group that includes Czech, Polish, Slovak, and Sorbian. Slovak is the closest to Czech. Polish and Sorbian are also very close to Czech.
There are a lot of similarities within the group itself. (It does not mean that people can easily understand each other languages.) Belonging to a certain language group indicates that these languages have same root and they are related.
Slavic group has 3 subdivisions: West Slavic, East Slavic and South Slavic. Here is the list of languages that are close to Czech:
West Slavic: Czech Slovak Polish Sorbian
East Slavic: Belarusian Russian Ukrainian
South Slavic: Bulgarian Macedonian Serbo-Croatian (Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian) Slovenian
2007-03-12 21:47:31 · answer #1 · answered by punasilva 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Czech is a slavic language, so you'll find similarities in Slovak, Polish, Croatian and even a few in Russian. Unfortunately, Czech is listed as one of the toughest languages in the world. Slovak is the closest "language cousin", and it's much easier to learn. There are fewer grammatical changes in the vocabulary. If you're wanting to study Czech, I'd recommend Pimsleur's program. It's basic, but I found it very helpful. Mej se hezky!
2007-03-13 16:58:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Czech belongs to the West Slavic branch of Indo-European languages, which also includes Slovak and Polish. South Slavic languages include Bulgarian and Serbo-Croation, while East Slavic members are Russian, Byelorussian and Ukrainian.
2007-03-09 19:05:55 · answer #3 · answered by hznfrst 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Almost any Czech person can understand Slovak without ever having to learn it. Polish is quite similar and Russian too.
2015-04-05 10:01:53 · answer #4 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slovak is its nearest relative followed by Polish and a few other Western Slavic languages like Sorbian, Lusatian, Kashubian etc. After that, comes Ukrainian.
The Czechs and Slovaks are probably both basically Germanic peoples who were simply taken over by Slavs a long time ago (6th and 7th centuries A.D.).
Until World War II, there were sizeable German speaking minorities in Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia.
2007-03-09 19:02:21 · answer #5 · answered by Brennus 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Polish, Slovak. In a lower extent Ukrainian, Russian
2007-03-09 18:52:45 · answer #6 · answered by QQ dri lu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slovak is, we understand each other with no problem. We would also understand some words in Polish and Russian, but that is about it.
2007-03-10 01:55:46 · answer #7 · answered by Matahari 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋