Can Slovak understand Ukrainian?

Slovak is – like English – written in Latin script, while Ukrainian is written in Cyrillic. So, if a Slovak tries to read a text in Ukrainian, he/she would most likely not understand it, except they have learned Cyrillic.

Is Slovak a Slavic language?

Key to these peoples and cultures are the Slavic languages: Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian to the east; Polish, Czech, and Slovak to the west; and Slovenian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian to the south.

How similar is the Ukrainian language to other languages?

Let’s start with vocabulary – the actual words we use and pass through generations. In terms of vocabulary, Ukrainian language is the closest to Belarusian (16\% of differences), and Russian language to Bulgarian (27\% of differences).

Is Slovak similar to other Slavonic languages?

Fun fact: it might happen that speakers of other Slavonic languages might say that Slovak is like the old version of their language. From what I learned, Slovak did in fact change less over time and so is closer to the common Slavonic root. I am slovak. Russian and slovak is in base close, experienced when we drunk together.

What are the different types of Slavic languages?

The most widely spoken Slavic languages are Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian in the east, Polish, Czech and Slovakian in the west and then the languages of the former Yugoslavia in the south: Serbo-Croat, Slovenian, Macedonian, and also Bulgarian.

What are the similarities between Polish Polish and Czech and Ukrainian?

In other words, Czech, Polish and Ukrainian in terms of their vocabulary are closer together. Historically as I understand it (although I have not studied this question), the Orthodox Church and Old Church Slavonic had a major influence on the evolution of Slavic languages.