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Statue of the first Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (whose mother was Czech and father Slovak) with Czech flag on the left and Slovak flag on the right. There is a high level of mutual intelligibility between the closely related West Slavic languages Czech and Slovak (the Czech–Slovak languages).

In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. It is sometimes used as an important criterion for distinguishing languages from dialects, although sociolinguistic factors are often also used.

Intelligibility between languages can be asymmetric, with speakers of one understanding more of the other than speakers of the other understanding the first. When it is relatively symmetric, it is characterized as "mutual". It exists in differing degrees among many related or geographically proximate languages of the world, often in the context of a dialect continuum.

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Mutual intelligibility

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the lower the mutual intelligibility. Asymmetric intelligibility refers to two languages that are considered partially mutually intelligible, but where one...

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Afrikaans

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Afrikaans, and different spellings. There is a large degree of mutual intelligibility between the two languages, especially in written form. The name...

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Czech language

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Republic. Czech is closely related to Slovak, to the point of high mutual intelligibility, as well as to Polish to a lesser degree. Czech is a fusional language...

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Languages of the Philippines

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kaibigankastila webpage of the Spanish culture in the Philippines. On linguistic mutual intolerance in the Philippines Filipino Translator Tagalog Translator Online...

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Danish language

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with Faroese and Icelandic. A more recent classification based on mutual intelligibility separates modern spoken Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish as "mainland...

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Comparison of Afrikaans and Dutch

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high degree of mutual intelligibility between the two languages, particularly in written form. Research suggests that mutual intelligibility between Dutch...

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North Germanic languages

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Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are close enough to form a strong mutual intelligibility where cross-border communication in native languages is very common...

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Dialect

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each mutually intelligible with the next, but may not be mutually intelligible with distant varieties. Others have argued that mutual intelligibility occurs...

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Varieties of Arabic

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(Maghreb) west of Egypt. The mutual intelligibility is high within each of those two groups, while the intelligibility between the two groups is asymmetric:...

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Japanese dialects

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forms among young people, such as Okinawan Japanese. In terms of mutual intelligibility, a survey in 1967 found the four most unintelligible dialects (excluding...

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Japanese language

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consonant inventories, although this is less common. In terms of mutual intelligibility, a survey in 1967 found that the four most unintelligible dialects...

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Intelligibility

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Intelligibility may refer to: Look up intelligibility in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mutual intelligibility, in linguistics Intelligibility (communication)...

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Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish

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(44% distance). The most obvious differences are in pronunciation. Mutual intelligibility is greater between the written languages than between the spoken...

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Arabic

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said to them in Maltese. This asymmetric intelligibility is considerably lower than the mutual intelligibility found between Maghrebi Arabic dialects....

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Southern Min

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having limited mutual intelligibility with it, others almost none. Teochew, Longyan, and Zhenan are said to have general mutual intelligibility with Hokkien...

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Hawaiian language

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level of comprehension between different Polynesian languages. The mutual intelligibility of Hawaiian was found to be 41.2% with Marquesan, 37.5% with Tahitian...

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Dialectology

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Commonly studied concepts in dialectology include the problem of mutual intelligibility in defining languages and dialects; situations of diglossia, where...

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English language

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after the Anglo-Saxon migration, Old English retained considerable mutual intelligibility with other Germanic varieties. Even in the 9th and 10th centuries...

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Varieties of Chinese

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Most assessments of mutual intelligibility of varieties of Chinese in the literature are impressionistic. Functional intelligibility testing is time-consuming...

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Uralic languages

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Mall Hellam proposed cognate sentences that she asserted to be mutually intelligible among the three most widely spoken Uralic languages: Finnish, Estonian...

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Zapotec languages

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Many varieties of Zapotec are mutually unintelligible with one another. There are some radical jumps in intelligibility between geographically close communities...

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Baltic languages

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not mutually intelligible. Relatively low mutual interaction for neighbouring languages historically led to gradual erosion of mutual intelligibility, and...

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Hokkien

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Hong Kong, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam elsewhere across the world. Mutual intelligibility between Hokkien dialects varies, but they are still held together...

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Quebec French

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that objectively standardizing Quebec French would lead to reduced mutual intelligibility with other French communities around the world, linguistically isolating...

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Dungan language

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Turkish and Russian lexical items". There is a varying degree of mutual intelligibility between Dungan and various Mandarin dialects. Central Plains Mandarin...

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Turkic languages

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almost universal within the Turkic family. There is a high degree of mutual intelligibility, upon moderate exposure, among the various Oghuz languages, which...

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Spanish dialects and varieties

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tenses considered "bookish" or archaic in most other dialects. Mutual intelligibility in Spanish does not necessarily mean a translation is wholly applicable...

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Urdu

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draws these aspects from Sanskrit; consequently, the two languages' mutual intelligibility effectively decreases as the factor of formality increases. In 1837...

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Hakha Chin language

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Hakha Chin, or Laiholh, is a Kuki-Chin language spoken by 446,264 people, mostly in Myanmar. In Mizoram, the language is recognized as Pawi. The total...

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Frisian languages

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However, modern English and Frisian are not mutually intelligible, nor are Frisian languages intelligible among themselves, owing to independent linguistic...

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