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Do the German and the Czech languages have any similarities?

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Only peripherally. Czech is a Slavic language while German is, obviously, Germanic. They are both Indo-European, meaning they were the same about 5–6 millennia ago. read more

Czech and German have had centuries of intensive language contact, beginning with the many Germanic words that got imported into Proto-Slavic and ending with the many German words that got imported into Czech vernacular until the 19th century. This is less visible now though. read more

SHARE: number of speakers times % similar vocabulary (see above). This gives you an indication of the number of people you can reach indirectly by learning German. Countries NUMBER: Total number of countries where the language is an official language or widely spoken. SHARE: The number of countries times % similar vocabulary (see above). read more

I feel like the similarity between German and Czech, aside from some loanwords, is primarily in the culture. The languages seem to categorize things similarly, but my Czech is still at a very low level, so it could be imagining things. read more

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