Language comparison
Czech vs Slovak
Both belong to the Indo-European family; their closest common node in the Glottolog tree: Czech-Slovak. Both are used in: Czechia, Slovakia.
Relatedness is not mutual intelligibility: languages of one branch can be unintelligible to each other, while very close ones (such as Serbian and Croatian) differ mainly in status and script. That is why we give no “similarity percentage”.
Czech
čeština
- Family and branch (Glottolog)
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Balto-Slavic
- Slavic
- West Slavic
- Czech-Slovak
- Czech
- Script
- Latin
- Hello / thank you
- dobrý den / děkuji
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 13 million sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Official (1)
- Czechia
- Without status
- widely used in 1 country
Slovak
slovenčina
- Family and branch (Glottolog)
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Balto-Slavic
- Slavic
- West Slavic
- Czech-Slovak
- Slovak
- Script
- Latin
- Hello / thank you
- dobrý deň / ďakujem
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 6.8 million sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Official (1)
- Slovakia
- Official in a region (1)
- Serbia
- Without status
- widely used in 1 country, a minority language in 1 country
Where they are spoken
- Czech 0
- Slovak 1
- both 2
Countries where the language has a legal status or is known by at least 10% of the population (CLDR); countries where it is only a minority language are not shown.