Talk:Czech–Slovak languages

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It's not a big deal to me, but I think it would be more logical to have Czech in front of the title, such as "Differences between Czech and Slovak language". 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 15:13, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Requested move to "Differences between Czech and Slovak"

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The result of the move request was: Not moved. Jafeluv (talk) 21:08, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Differences between Slovak and Czech languages → Differences between Czech and Slovak — I suggest the names of the two languages be alphabetised, and the word "languages" be dropped from the title. The "languages" specification is otiose; besides, by removing it we would standardise it with the patterns of entitling the articles Differences between standard Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian, Differences between Norwegian Bokmål and Standard Danish, Differences between Spanish and Portuguese, Differences between Scottish Gaelic and Irish, Differences between Malay and Indonesian. Some of those may need alphabetising too. --Theurgist (talk) 05:16, 7 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose "Slovak" and "Czech" do not imply language. 76.66.193.119 (talk) 05:09, 8 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose The proposed title does not make it clear that the difference between the languages that are the subject; I would suggest that the other articles are moved instead. "Czech" and "Slovak" could also refer to culture, ethnicity, music and so forth. I would, however, suggest slightly modifying this title to Differences between the Czech and Slovak languages, putting the two languages in alphabetic order and adding the definite article.  City   of   Destruction  16:50, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Would it be a good idea to list the languages by number of speakers? The most spoken first, the least spoken last? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.240.140.130 (talk) 18:05, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

"Pronunciation for Czech and Slovak language"
The link to "Pronunciation for Czech and Slovak language" leads, not to such a page, but to the page: "Help:IPA for Czech". This is certainly useful, but there's nothing at all about Slovak, so you can't make the ready comparison that I, at least, had expected. Is the link misdirected? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.246.110.253 (talk) 16:04, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

I fixed that, adding a link to the "Help:IPA for Slovak" page, since there isn't a joint page for both Czech and Slovak pronunciation. Radoslav Ivan (talk) 16:30, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Lexical table - messy!
I don't get the table, really. What exactly does it contain? It seems like most of the words have clear cognates, even lookalike matches, albeit sometimes only in the colloquial/literary form of Czech. The table underlines differences and might lead to the mistaken assumption that the two languages are much more different than they actually are, for instance the word for "really" is also "skutočne" in Slovak and "skutečně" in Czech. If the Slovak for "girl" is "dievča", and the Czech "holka, děvče", why mention that the Slovak for "boy" is "chlapec", but only mention Czech "kluk" and not the obvious match "chlapec"? Not to mention the slightly literary "hoch"? Also, what order are the items supposed to be in? The table does really need some serious cleaning, I'm afraid.-- P ětušek 15:07, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

Dialect continuum
I am not really sure if the comment with dialect continuum is still appropriate. I am Czech myself and never heard a variety which I could not unmistakably identify as one language or the other, except for when a Slovak tries to speak Czech and vice versa. I would say that once existent dialect continuum is now thing of the past and two distinct standard varieties with rather subtle dialects (with stark exception of Eastern ones) prevail. There is not much overlapping, in my view, but linguists should know better. P Slo 15:07, 16 December 2020 (UTC)