On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:56:07AM +0100, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: > A Q about the Slovak language: while you were in a union with the > Czechs, did the languages start to unify spontaneously? I mean like > vocabulary changes, minor grammatical drift, spelling oddities > changing and so on and so forth?
It is hard to say for sure. Both languages were changed in those ca 70 years we were together in Czechoslovakia, but I do not think they started to unify in any notable way. Most probably they even diverged. Both languages are so different that some young Czech people (< 25) have problems to understand Slovak language comfortably these days. For example we have 5 letters not present in Czech and Czech language have 2 letters not present in Slovak language. -- +-------------------------------------------+ | Marcel Telka e-mail: mar...@telka.sk | | homepage: http://telka.sk/ | | jabber: mar...@jabber.sk | +-------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
