On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:17:51AM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote: > 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.
3, not 2, I forgot one :-). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Slovak_and_Czech -- +-------------------------------------------+ | 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