Slovaks and Poles belong to the western branch of the Slavs (together with the Czechs and Lusatian Serbs).
The language is very similar.
Approximately 60% of words have the same meaning.
Of course, there are words with absolutely different meanings - sometimes comic..
Slovaks and Poles belong to the western branch of the Slavs (together with the Czechs and Lusatian Serbs).
The language is very similar.
Approximately 60% of words have the same meaning.
Of course, there are words with absolutely different meanings - sometimes comic..
Czech is closely related to Slovak, to the point of high mutual intelligibility, as well as to Polish to a lesser degree.
Czech is a fusional language with a rich system of morphology and relatively flexible word order.
Its vocabulary has been extensively influenced by Latin and German..
Later on, in the Middle Ages, the Czech language became very popular in Poland
Almost everyone who belonged to an intellectual circle spoke Czech
This created a fashion for the Czech language, which originated in many lexical changes in the Polish language
Czech distinguishes long and short vowels, while Polish doesn’t
Additionally, Polish preserved the phonetic difference between 'i' and 'y', while in Czech, they have merged into one single vowel
Another big difference in how these two languages sound is the pronunciation stress
Part of the Polish-Czechoslovak border conflicts
