well all Slav languages are very similar and almost any Slav is easily able to learn other Slav language. I don't speak Croatians but I have never had any problems with communication when I went there for vacation and same goes for Poland. When I got drunk with Polish people, like really drunk :D we understood each other perfectly with some I did not even register they are speaking a different language then I :D :D
Slovenian and Slovakian nation are one slavic the closest nation divided by Hungary,because land between Slovakia and Slovenia named Panonia was given or taken by Hungariens.It was done to break Slovanian Empire make the Slavic people weak.We can see it now,what is happening among all Slavic nations..But we have One Slavic nation strong and proud.It is Russia.If we were smart and see the future. we would stick together and for sure we would not have problems with those third class emigrants ...and all other problems leading to genocide all Slavs and white race generally.
To me I'd guess one comes from a nominal/demonymic form (slovak) and the other stems from an adjective. Both ultimately mean people of the word, that is to say speakers of a Slavic language.
Its risky because its incorrect. You have to respect international law. And according to that law, neither Kosovo is a sovereign country by any definition, nor is Macedonia named like that. Its like calling United Kingdom, just Kingdom.
+Nyancat7 I perfectly understand why in everyday conversations you wouldn't use the full name. But nations are sensitive when it comes to public stuff like this video. So to be politically correct and not piss off anyone, the best way is just to respect what is internationally accepted. :)
Dr. Anton Perdih - Iskanje slovenske samobitnosti: Izvor Slovencev in drugih Evropejcev: th-cam.com/video/7XsW8pZyw6g/w-d-xo.html Izvor Slovencev in drugih Evropejcev - Dr. Anton Perdih - 15.11.2016 - Knjižnica Duplek: th-cam.com/video/l8-dXqUo7pk/w-d-xo.html Iskanje slovenske samobitnosti: Smo Slovenci staroselci ali prišleki? - Dr. Duša Krnel Umek: th-cam.com/video/zlqrbmNHz4A/w-d-xo.html Dr. Cyril A. Hromnik: th-cam.com/video/rPXeftz2fKE/w-d-xo.html
Bistvo Hromnikove Slovenske staroselske teorije je moč opisati z dvema ključnima trditvama: - 1). Slovanov nikoli ni bilo, saj so to ime iznašli šele v začetku 19. stoletja na Češkem, z očitnim namenom zabrisati sledi starih Slovenov, prednikov današnjih Slovencev in Slovakov. Hkrati z iznajdbo t.i. Slovanov zablatencev (tistih iz močvirskega blata) so razvili tudi izmišljeno teorijo o njihovem prihodu v srednjo Evropo v 6. in 7. stoletju. Nobenih »proto-Slavjanov« in zagotovo nobenih novopečenih »Slovanov« iz 19. stoletja, nikoli ni bilo. V Pripjatska močvirja sta jih potisnili nemška imperialna šola zgodovinarjev, ki so sanjali o možnem "Drang nach Osten" in češka šovinistična šola (F. Palacký, L. Niederle, V. Chaloupecký, itd.), ki sta na tak način hoteli odstraniti Slovene - prednike Slovakov in Slovencev, iz vsakomur očitne verske, kulturne in trgovske prvotne domovine Slovenov ob Donavi. - 2). Domovina starih Slovenov je umeščena v Srednjo Evropo, na obeh straneh reke Donave od Tater in Karpatov na vzhodu, do Jadranskega morja in Alp na zahodu. Sloveni - Slovenci in Slovaki, so tu prebivali že najmanj 3.000 let pred našim štetjem. Dr. Hromnik s svojimi raziskavami daje povsem prav Juriju Venelinu (Starodavni in današnji Slovenci), ki je enake trditve postavil v prvi polovici 19. stoletja ter opisal tri rimsko-slovenske vojne. Ob tem je pomebno, da dr. Hromnik Venelinovega dela sploh ne pozna, do svojih spoznanj pa se je dokopal povsem neodvisno. www.hervardi.com/jurij_venelin.php Starodavni in današnji Slovenci, Ю́рий Ива́нович Вене́лин: www.eliza.si/izdelek/starodavni-in-danasnji-slovenci-venelin/ Sklaveni Sloveni Slovenci - G. Marjan Moškon: th-cam.com/video/4CiBBi8bMm4/w-d-xo.html Od kod Slovenci? - G. Marjan Moškon: th-cam.com/video/-viLZDVJEmk/w-d-xo.html
Don't understand why it is so, what bother us to live in the one country? Our languages are really same for example I have a friend from Poland( i'm russian ) and he speaks polska, i speak russian and we understand each other.
It's simple! Old Slovenian word for Slavs was Sloveni (now, Slovani). So, country of Slavs(Sloveni) is Slovenija. Same thing is with Slovaks. We are the only two Slavs tribes that keep original name.
I think I accidently posted this on a wrong comment, Yes I know this one is totally true lol... In my language its SLOVJANY, SLOVO means word, SLAVA means glory.
When you try to explain the similarity between names Slovenia and Slovakia you should really look to history and the answer is obvious and has nothing to do with being part of bigger country. After the fall of Roman Empire it was the same nation which inhabited whole panonic plain and more (nowadays Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Croatia and Slovakia). The name Slovenian and Slovakian both derive from "slav" which is old slavic word for "word". Members of the same nation spoke the same language (old slavic) and they understood each other so they called themselves nation of word (slavs). By the way slavic word for the Germans in "Nemci" = the mute nation -> since they did not understand each other. When Hungarians arrived they settled in Panonic plain (nowdays Hungary) and splitted the slavic nation in two parts (Slovenian and Slovakian) After that both parts of nation lived by itself and developed by itself into two different nations. But since deriving from the same old slavic nation we still have lots in common. From flag, similar language, similar culture and so on. It is true, that we were both part of bigger countries in history, but it has nothing to do with the name. It has roots thousands years before Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
I'm from northern Croatia and I can say that prior to 17th century we were also called "Slovenci" :D I've been reading a lot about that and there are many evidences that three of us might had been one big nation at 5th or 6th century because our languages are pretty similar and we on the north of Croatia are not even speaking Croatian, but Kajkavian language that is pretty similar to Slovene and also Slovakian, making me think sometimes that it is a mixture of Slovene and Slovakian xD I'm right now studying in Slovenia so I can also speak Slovene and back in my hockey days I've been one month in Slovakia and never had problem with understanding and didn't even use English at all. In Slovenia and Slovakia I always have the same feeling like when I'm home :D
Maybe even before 5th and 6th century. I think it goes back to the times of the Roman repubic :) What do you study? I study in Ljubljana too. A few years back we went to Czechia and they didn't really understand Slovenian but they understood Croatian haha.
True, I read somewhere that the Kajkavians, Slovenians and Slovkians were pretty much the same :D However the Štokavci and Čakavci (did I write that correctly?) are the real Croatians. Also a part of Croatia is called Slavonia which makes it even more similar to Slovenia, right :D? Is it true that Croatians were warriors, hired by an Eastern Roman emperor and later given land in nowadays Croatia and there they mixed with Slovenians :)?
You are kinda missing the point here. Both Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia are modern constructs, which were create long time after names for these two nations were created. The names simply originate from proto-slavic name for Slavs, that means, they simply call themselve "Slav". That´s beacause they share similar faith, as they were slavic people in non-slavic countries (Bavaria/HRE, resp. Hungary). Btw, to take similarity further - Slovak name for Slovakia is Slovensko.
Do you eat some crazy mushrooms? First Slav isnot slavic word. Proto-slavic? Bavaria is far away. Hungarian weren`t there until 10th century. Almost all around were Slavic tribes with other names. Your conclusion are really insame. As Hungarian who spokeabout Hungarian before Slavs in Europe.
@@bojanstare8667 1) this isn't what mushrooms do to people, educate yourself on drugs; 2) Octopus is absolutely correct. Bavaria doesn't belong here but the territory of modern Slovania absolutely has been ruled by the Holy Roman Empire (a non-Slavic entity), thus the need for the Slavs (predecessors of modern-day Slovenes) to develop their own, unique identity. Unlike most other Slavs, however, the Slovenes (and the Slovaks) simply didn't adopt an entirely name and just stuck with the evolution of the original name of the single Slavic tribe. The same thing helped create the Slovak identity, yes, the Hungarians only settled the area in the 10th century, but precisely *because* of the creation of the Hungarian state, the Slovaks - as a Slavic population in a non-Slavic state - needed to develop a separate identity. Before that, in the Great Moravia, there was no need for a separate, unique identity, as the empire itself was mostly a Slavic empire. And, just like the Slovenes, they somehow remembered that they originated from an ancient Slavic tribe and that they were Slavs in a non-Slavic state, so they just went with the name "Slavs", which, over the millenia, evolved into the modern form; 3) Slav totally is a Slavic word and was used by proto-Slavs to name themselves: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs_(ethnonym)#Etymology
I speak Slovenian and i hate it lol. I really do wish that i was born in an english-speaking country... Oh well ik i could move to an english country but prob wont... Poverty is pretty high in Slovenia since most of the low paying jobs give 600€ minimum. That's just enough to get by in a month by yourself and maybe keep like 50€ to yourself. Honestly English is much easier for me to speak even thought it isn't my mother language. (I speak English since 5) I am way more comfortable speaking English than Slovenian, my language is just confusing I guess... Too much to learn so i just prefer speaking english. (except in real life of course, since most people don't know english really well).
@@cubixman9676 to be honest, i can see where you're coming from. English sounds way more natural and better in a conversation. Slovenian, for me, just sounds awkward. 😂
@@cubixman9676 Look man, I'm Slovak and I hate Slovak language. It's inconsistent bullshit. I would say go for your dreams. Plus I wouldn't feel weird for not speaking your native language as your first language (that's quite a difference), because me and you are on the same boat basically. I'm planning to move to London for example. Slovakia is too really poor, basically everything from economy, all the gains go to the capital. And I'm even lucky I'm on the western side of the country, you don't want to see the average eastern/middle Slovak village. God I'm surprised you are in exactly the same problem as me. OK so push on I guess.
Can't even imagine, what you have in mind for sound 'y' (in IPA chart it is almost same as 'i' or 'ü') :) If by 'j' you mean 'dg', then in slavic langs we have 'dg' letter combinations. But again, for a lot of people, not only slavic (swedish e.g.), 'j' means something like 'i', not 'dj' like in english.
To make this shit even more interesting part of Poland's coast is called Slowinskie and used to be populated by Slowincy who unfortunately got Germanized.
Slovaks were not a thing in middle ages, it was just "slavic population of northern Hungary". Slovak identity did not become a thing until 1800s, when the idea of a nation became a thing. It is at this time when the word Slovak starts to appear. Before it was "Sloven" or something like that, which is just a hungarian/german word for a Slav.
@@martinsmolik2449 Are you drank? Hungarian/German word? Hungarian say Tot. German say Windisch or Wenden. Where you have found that "fact"?And what were Hungarian? Nation? Just one tribe, mostly of wariors. And German? In this time (10th century) was writen the oldest Slavic text in latin letters: Brižinski spomeniki. Professor Josef Dobrovsky has claimed in his letter to Jernej Kopitar, that this text was writen in Slovene. And not in someundefined Slavic language. Menas Slovak and Slovene have in 10th century Duchy of Pannonia. And before that in 7th century Slovene`s Carinthia. Are you from Czech republik?
spomeniki znie to ako zdrobnenie. V slovenských narečiach je to bežné slovo drobniť. Také staré záznamy by sa mali porovnávať z narečiami. Lebo majú starý pôvod.
Ika Gogitidze The country is most likely named after St. George, their patron saint, while the state is named after one of the British Hanoverian kings, i'm not sure which George.
You need to understand that the way you call countries in English doesn't mean that that's their real name. Georgia (the country) isn't called Georgia in Georgia (they call themselves Sakartvelo) It's just in English that they have the same name. And the English decided to call them that because they used the st. George's cross as their banner, whereas the state of Georgia is called that so to give respect to the reigning British king at the time of the colony's founding, king George II.
The languages in Slovenia and Slovakia are similar too. I think more than Croatian and Slovak Language. We have even the towns with the same names, like Nove Mesto. 😀 Truly said, Slovakia should also be called Slovenia, because in or language is Slovakia called Sloven-sko. And Slovenia means Slovinsko. Women are also called Sloven-ka, and everything concerning with Slovakia is sloven-ský. (- means sufix). And according this logic the men in Slovakia should be called Sloven-i. Once I have read somewhere, that in the far past the word "Slovak" was something like invective. I think, originally in the region from Slovakia to Slovenia and Croatia lived one nation Sloven-s. Pozdravujem slovansko-slovensko-slovinských bratov na Jadrane... 😀
It is simple. Before have Hungary ariving in Europe we were one nation. In 10th century was Duchy of Lower Pannonia under duke Kocel. South west of Pannonia was the north east Sloveniaof today. Then Hungarian have come inPannonia and have split us in two parts.
I am from Slovakia and I thought a lot of people don't know that Slovakia is exist!😂 but thank you so much that you made this video 😀 (sorry for my english) Niekto zo Slovenska?? 😀
Doesn't do a very good job of explaining the origins of the names either. Both come from the root words Slavs use to describe themselves: "slovo" and "sloven" - i.e. someone who is able to speak. In many Slavic languages, the word for German speakers (their nearest and most numerous neighbours) is the exact opposite of this, "nemec" or "nemac" - i.e. someone who cannot speak, who is mute. We can imagine then, a time when Slavic tribes would refer to themselves and other tribes with whom they share an intelligable language as "sloveni" (those who can speak) and to foreigners as "nemci" (those who cannot speak).
1:58 The Czech Republic is named from Petr Cech, the legendary footballer who once worked at a bus terminal in Fulham. He now works under a Frenchman as a digger in Highbury.
You should add the region of Slavonia to this... It's not its own nation, but it's a recognized region name nonetheless... Meaning that this spaghetti soup of Slovenes, Slavs, Slovaks and so on only gets deeper and deeper :D
I recall going to family reunions as a child, and fist fights would break out over whether the family was slavonian or slovenian. The matter was settled after several shots of slivovitz, with all agreeing that the family was sloppydrunkian.
There are perhaps thousands of cases around the World where locations have same names in different countries. Nobody gets butt-hurt about it ... except Greeks who look like whiny special snowflakes who got their delicate feelings hurt so much. Grow up, people. The rest of the World is laughing at you.
@@Bart42000 Yes, of course. The younger generation sees things differently. In addition, we have mixed, there can be no much animosity between nations. I am an example, half Czech (and a little bit Slovak), half Hungarian, but born and living in... Romania.
@@LaszloVondracsek IDK what it looked like on HU side on 90s and 00s years but on Slovak side we have political and media pressure to hate hungarian for what has happened in the past... But when some politics change, and politics and media are focused on something other for some time, its chnage a lot, and i think is a much better.
Dr. Anton Perdih - Iskanje slovenske samobitnosti: Izvor Slovencev in drugih Evropejcev: th-cam.com/video/7XsW8pZyw6g/w-d-xo.html Izvor Slovencev in drugih Evropejcev - Dr. Anton Perdih - 15.11.2016 - Knjižnica Duplek: th-cam.com/video/l8-dXqUo7pk/w-d-xo.html Iskanje slovenske samobitnosti: Smo Slovenci staroselci ali prišleki? - Dr. Duša Krnel Umek: th-cam.com/video/zlqrbmNHz4A/w-d-xo.html Dr. Cyril A. Hromnik: th-cam.com/video/rPXeftz2fKE/w-d-xo.html
Bistvo Hromnikove Slovenske staroselske teorije je moč opisati z dvema ključnima trditvama: - 1). Slovanov nikoli ni bilo, saj so to ime iznašli šele v začetku 19. stoletja na Češkem, z očitnim namenom zabrisati sledi starih Slovenov, prednikov današnjih Slovencev in Slovakov. Hkrati z iznajdbo t.i. Slovanov zablatencev (tistih iz močvirskega blata) so razvili tudi izmišljeno teorijo o njihovem prihodu v srednjo Evropo v 6. in 7. stoletju. Nobenih »proto-Slavjanov« in zagotovo nobenih novopečenih »Slovanov« iz 19. stoletja, nikoli ni bilo. V Pripjatska močvirja sta jih potisnili nemška imperialna šola zgodovinarjev, ki so sanjali o možnem "Drang nach Osten" in češka šovinistična šola (F. Palacký, L. Niederle, V. Chaloupecký, itd.), ki sta na tak način hoteli odstraniti Slovene - prednike Slovakov in Slovencev, iz vsakomur očitne verske, kulturne in trgovske prvotne domovine Slovenov ob Donavi. - 2). Domovina starih Slovenov je umeščena v Srednjo Evropo, na obeh straneh reke Donave od Tater in Karpatov na vzhodu, do Jadranskega morja in Alp na zahodu. Sloveni - Slovenci in Slovaki, so tu prebivali že najmanj 3.000 let pred našim štetjem. Dr. Hromnik s svojimi raziskavami daje povsem prav Juriju Venelinu (Starodavni in današnji Slovenci), ki je enake trditve postavil v prvi polovici 19. stoletja ter opisal tri rimsko-slovenske vojne. Ob tem je pomebno, da dr. Hromnik Venelinovega dela sploh ne pozna, do svojih spoznanj pa se je dokopal povsem neodvisno. www.hervardi.com/jurij_venelin.php Starodavni in današnji Slovenci, Ю́рий Ива́нович Вене́лин: www.eliza.si/izdelek/starodavni-in-danasnji-slovenci-venelin/ Sklaveni Sloveni Slovenci - G. Marjan Moškon: th-cam.com/video/4CiBBi8bMm4/w-d-xo.html Od kod Slovenci? - G. Marjan Moškon: th-cam.com/video/-viLZDVJEmk/w-d-xo.html
@@MissSlovakia2 It is interesting that also in Slovene we have name Slovani for the same meaning. Just Serbs and Croats speak Sloveni instead Slovani. They want to be Slovene, was my first idea.
Fun fact: in Slovak language we call our language "slovenský" and in Slovenia they call their language "slovenski". One letter difference, same pronounciation. This sometimes causes funny situations when travelling.
Natalia Actually, it would be more right to point out that we (Slovenes) name our language "slovenščina". Whereas you (Slovaks) name your language "slovenčina". Again, very similar and confusing :D
@@QuinlanLJ Doesn't help that the languages are eerily similar for being South vs West Slavic. I wager, that if Slovenia didn't undergo germanization, the language would be even more similar to Slovak in some aspects, though, likely way more similar to Croatian as well.
@@ukilectric Wrong. In Serbo-Croatian language Slovenski mean Slavic. Sorry, it is used in Serbian, not in Croatian language. Both nations name Slovenian - Slovenački. And Slovenčina is Slovak language. Slovene language is Sloveščina. 🙂 Any way, Slovene language is more western than south Slavic language. Gramatic is very similar to Slovak language.
FUNFACT: in in Slovak language, the diference is only in one letter (Slovensko/Slovinsko), FUNFACT 2: in both Slovak and Slovenian language, the language itself is called "Slovenčina"
Slovaks and Slovenes were the same or closely related people over a thousand years ago, united under a Frankish king named Samo, somewhere around the 7th century. This "Samo's realm" included parts of Slovakia, Czechia, Moravia, and Slovenia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samo In both the Slovak and Slovene language, the word for woman is "slovenka." Both languages refer to their own lands as Slovensko or Slovinsko, "land of the slavs." Pronunciation changed over centuries. Slovaks, Slovenes, Slovanians retain their original slavic names as "slavs" or "slovene" - from the slavic word "slovo" meaning people of the word, i.e. people they could understand. To support this, we can observe how the Slavs referred to the Germanic people they came into contact with as "nemec" which means "mute" - people that could not speak their language. Today, Germany is still called "Nemecko" by all slavic countries - land of the mutes.
The bird that Europeans saw in the new world remined them of another bird that came from the Ottoman Empire and so they called both a turkey, similar to what the colonists did with other plants/animals that were similar to things they saw at home.
In spanish it's "pavo", "guajolote", "totol". I don't see India there. The first is from latin "PÁVÓ" with the same meaning. The second is from nahuatl "huey xolötl", big monster. The third also from nahuatl "tötolli" female bird. There are also "pisco", "guanajo" and "chompipe", don't know their etyms, but India does not look as a possible one.
Why are the flags quite similar too... the slavic tricolor with a three-peaked mountain one sharp, one rounded, with the cross and star being the difference
@Tristan - The two countries' names aren't *that* similar in English, but when you say them in their own languages it gets a lot more confusing. For example the Slovak word for Slovakia is "Slovensko," while the Slovak word for Slovenia is "Slovinsko." So the difference is only one vowel sound, and the two vowels sound relatively similar to each other. I thought it was rather lame that the video didn't even mention the names of these countries in their own languages (and each other's), and how that's more similar than the English names. I down-voted it because of that, in addition to the fact that it uncritically listed Kosovo as an independent country without mentioning the ongoing dispute over its status.
BikeLion that's pretty interesting, now that does sound very similar! Yes, the Kosovo bit did kind of get to me too; why not recognize Nagorno Karabakh when it's such a similar situation? I didn't down vote the vid though.
The main point, that you unfortunately missed is the meaning of the word "slov(o)" in slavic languages. Both countries are called "The land of slov(o)" (only with different suffic). Slovo means "word", or rather "language". This is motly due to their location next to the completely differently speaking country (Hungary and Italy). To distinguish this fact and to change their orientation towards slavic lands, they were both called "The land of the language". (to understand this further, in both Czech and Polish, Germany is called "The land of the mutes")
Villages in Slovakia: Slovenske Nove Mesto Slovenske Darmoty Slovenske Pravno Slovenska Lupca Slovenska Kajna Slovenska Ves Villages/Towns in Slovenia: Slovenske Konjice Slovenska Bistirca Slovenska Vas also the words "Ulica" (street), "Cesta" (road) and "Dom" (house) are the same in both languages words Nabrežje and Nábrežie are very simmilar. When I look at Slovenia it feels like my country, like there is no difference, like it's home. I just need to learn Slovene language properly, which I'm going to and it won't be difficult.
I have sent a package from US back home to Slovakia by FedEx. When it was late I found its tracking info showing it stuck in capital of Slovenia - wrong country. That explains why they couldn't find the correct town. After I explained to them how they got stuck, they managed to send it to the right place.
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Well, Primož Trubar wrote Slouenci (Slovenci in modern Slovenien) in 1550... so what is the role of 20th 's century Jugoslavija in it?
@@bojanstare8667 V bistvu ne za hrvate, ampak za Bezjake, kot je sam imenoval zahodno živeče prebivalce današnje hrvaške. Današnji Kajkavci so tako ali tako potomci Slovencev, oz. Slovincev ki so do prihoda Hrvatov preko Kolpe (na HR strani) živeli v t.i. Slovenieh.
@@bojanstare8667 What I mean is what part of Bosnia is Bosnia, and what part is Herzegovina? And what is the history of how they are two separate nations, and how they are one sovereign state today.
@@bojanstare8667 Most people just call it the United Kingdom, even though its full name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. They aren't really two separate countries, but rather it is two separate geographical terms for landmasses. The largest of the British Isles (Great Britain), and a small part in the north of the second largest of the British Isles (Ireland).
@@carultch Ireland is not Britain. Just part of Ireland is in UK. In Bosnia in Hercegovina (BiH) are three nations: Croates, Serbs and Bosnian. Bosnia is north bigger part of state. Hercegovina is south smaller part. In Hercegovina live mostly Croats, in Bosnia live more Bosnian. Serbs are evrywhere mostly in east of all state. They are not just three nations but also three religions: chatolic (Croate), ortodox (Serbian) and muslim (Bosnian). State is divided first on Federation and Republika Srpska. In Federation live Croats and Bosnian in several kantones (like Switzerland). In republika Srpska live mostly Serbian. In Yugoslavia everybody says if in Bosnia is peace, everywere is peace. BiH was through the history "bure baruta sa kratkim fitiljem" - a barrel of gunpowder with a short ignition cord. The longest peace was in the time of Tito.
This is no secret. Slovenians and Slovaks were the same nation once. Hungarians, who aren't Indoeuropeans, came in this region in 10th century. This is not so far ago. Only fools can believe, that Slovenians came into this region in 6th century. Austrians named Slovenians- Windisch and Austrian capital is Wien. Only Slovenians and Lausitz Serbs have (singular) dual (plural). All other languages know only singular and plural. Yup, free your mind and connect this facts: Venets-Windisch, sclavi (slaves) - Slovenci - we are European' Aborigines.
@@robertjug8515 Ne govori mu zahod. A veš kaj pomeni zahod v srbohrvaščini? Wc. Kaj misliš kako zgleda avtobus poln Bosancev, ko se pelje mimo izvoza za Vič? Če pelješ za njimi, vidiš da se maje in poskakuje, ker Bosanci ob pogledu na tablo dol padajo od smeha.
yet nobody here uses it :D just some politician said that it would be easier for peoples from other countries to rememember, but in every official paper it is still czech republic
In Slovak it's Švajčiarsko and Švédsko... But I have a problem with Latvia and Lithuania. In Slovak it's Lotyšsko and Litva. :D The fact that both Litva and Latvia are short and vice versa and that Lithuania and Litva both start with "Lit" it always gets me lost when translating from English. :D
Explanation from slovenian guy. Ok first "Slovenia" and "Slovakia" were indeed in same country (Habsburg monarchy (later Austro-Hungarian) but to be honest we didnt have much connection with Slovakia. We had it with Austria and Croatia and more with Czech than Slovaks (also our language is closer to Czech than Slovak language. Anyway Slovenes were first named like that in 16th century in time of reformation. Primož Trubar named us Slovenes from slavic word Slava which means glory. How did the Slovaks get their name, i am not sure but might be the same.
Never ending Fun Fact: in Slovenia they call the child "otrok" what in Slovakia means "slave", what brings us to final conclusion that kids are slaves.
In Czech it's even more confusing: Slovenský - Slovak (adj.) Slovinský - Slovenian (adj.) Slovanský - Slavic But: A Slovak person is Slovák for some reason
Etimology of slavic names is very simple. Polish = field people from Slavic Polje (field), Czech from collect, join together, Sloven/Slovak from Slavic to comunicate, understand each other, Croat and Serb/Sorb actually have same etimology sirb+at (for collective plural) s changes to h, b to v and you have Srbad and Hrvat respectively...
well, I'm from Slovakia, in fact, there is Slovakia, Poland, Czechia, all way down to Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, we are all Slovans.. even west Russia are Slovans.. or "Slavs". Like in France, there was a giant tribe of Gals, Switzerland was set by Helvets, you know.. and here we were just Slovans=Slavs. Then the Huns and Avars came, they made in the middle od Slovans their Hungary, so we divided and our languages divided a bit too.. well and also, we have more history than just Czechoslovakia, there was in the year 833 a Great Moravia, which was an empire big as from Germany to Romania... and even before, when there was a Roman Empire, there were Slovans fighting them :D big historical fun
Not really, our ancestors never got to fight Romans (well, technically we did, Byzantine Empire was Roman Empire and they fought Slavs), we came into Carpathian Basin in 5th century. Also, Moravia (name Great Moravia is wrong, written sources from that time call it only as "Realm of Moravians") became that big only for a short time under Svätopluk, after he died, his sons lost most of his conquests and Moravia was reduced to its former lands in nowadays Moravia and western Slovakia.
@@filipbatora7523 You forgot Lower Pannonia in the same time in 10th century. And how do you know who fight with who? Attila has fought with western Roman empire. His army have had also Slavs. And if no Slavs were in that time in Roman empire, how all western nations have word for slave almost the same as Slavs?
You're right on the money. Part of why the two nations' names are a bit "generic" is down to them not really having independence before the 20th century. As provinces of defunct larger monarchies, their inhabitants simply identified as local Slavs, and the more official monikers solidified in later centuries. Not sure about more concrete Slovenian examples, but in Slovakia's case, the first consistent usage of "Slovak" (or "Slowak", etc.) cropped up in the 15th and 16th century. You occassionally had lesser-used synonyms, such as "Pannonian Slav", used by some authors in the 16th and 17th century as a more geographically sounding descriptor. For much of the modern era, it was some variation on what later became the term "Slovak".
They are one nation, after germanization and hungarization split them in two. But that is a scientific taboo, we don't talk about it. Genetics confirms it, there were no slavic migrations in 6th century. The word slav was derived from Slovensko in 19th century by linguist Šafarik in an attemp to unite the supressed peoples under Austrohungarians as a one slavic nation. They were inventing also new alphabets and gramar to overcome historical differences, but it ended up in a bigger differentiation since each group of slavs invented their own sistem that was ment to unite them. The new forms of slavic languages brought us new nations. The irony is now that the effort for uniting people brought them even more apart. 😕
That was a rather poor explanation, don't you think? There's actually a historical/linguistic theory on why Slovenia/Slovakia are named like that. It has to do with early medieval identities and the lack of an ethnic/national state, since both entities weren't ruled by its respective peoples, but by foreign powers (Bavaria/Austria). That's why the peoples assumed generic names Slovenia/Slovakia, i.e. the country of Slavs.
Bla, bla.. Both we have states and Duchy. After 14th century Habsburg monarchy took over everything. Befor we both have had our elite. But we were more democratic as German (barbarian). In Carinthia our ancestors have voted their own dukes. First it wasn`t dynasty. After Ernest von Habsburg they changed situation. After 1414. Even Ernst have had to swear in Slovene language.
Oh god...., sorry to say that, but this is just very bad and completely ignoring the true reasons! 🤦♂️ In this Video is a presentation on Czechlovakia and one on Yugoslavia, but neither has anything to do with Slovakia and Slovenia. The more than 1100-year history, which actually serves as the basis for that similarities between Slovakia and Slovenia and why these two countries are similar in name and language, is not mentioned with a single word! 🤷♂️ Slovenian is assigned to the South Slavic languages, but differs greatly from all other South Slavic languages. Presumably, a closer connection with Slovak can be derived from Carantania and the Avars (6th - 8th centuries) and also King Samos empire: today's area of Moravia, Lower Austria, Northeast-Slovenia and Southwestern Slovakia. For example, similar elements of Old Slavic can be found in the Slovenian and Slovak language. The words for “Slovenian” and “Slovak” are often confusing: the Slovenes call their language "Slovenščina", the Slovaks their language "Slovenčina". During and after the times of Carantania and the Avarmark (where the Alpine Slavs and later Western Slavs lived together), the Slavs called themselves Slovani or Slovanci, which could be the reason for these similarities between Slovaks and Slovenes. These ancestors of Slovenes and Slovaks lived together under the Awar Empire and especially under King Samo. But due to the constant attacks of the warlike Madyars, these Slavs were then separated and later the ancestors of the Slovenes formed the Principality of Carantania. Because of this separation with the Hungarians in between (separation of the southern Western Slavs into Czechs, Slovaks and Slovenes), this is a reason for, why a certain relationship of Slovenian with the Western Slavic language Slovakian can be derived. Thus, Slovene is the only South Slavic language that is also related to some parts with the West Slavic languages. Especially with the Slovak language. The Slovak language got over lots of centuries influences from its Slavic neighborhood (Czech, Polish, Ukrainian), therefore it developed completely different from Slovene language. After the fall of the Great Moravian Empire, the Magyars gradually conquered today's Slovakia. After a brief conquest by Poland (1001-1030), the entire area returned under Hungarian rule. After the defeat of the Hungarian army at Mohács against the Ottomans in 1526, Slovakia fell to the Habsburg Monarchy by inheritance. In 1787 Anton Bernolák tried to create a unified Slovak language for the first time with the codification of the written Slovak language. Slovenian, on the other hand, did not exist as a language for over a thousand years. This language was called the Windisch language in German. The Slovenian reformer Primoz Trubar (what is also the so called father of Slovenian language) also spoke exclusively about the Windisch language in his first Slovenian writings during the 16th century. After Carantania came under the protection of Charlemagne in the 9th century, the Slovenes belonged for over 1000 years to the Frankish Empire, to the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, Bavaria, then to the Austrian Crown Land. And finally to Yugoslavia for only 73 years. Both countries have many similarities in their history, they have always been occupied by a larger nation and never had their independence. Therefore it is also a phenomenon, that both, Slovaks and Slovenes, have preserved their language over so many centuries. This as a very short explanation, why Slovenia and Slovakia sounds similar, and they also have other similarities too. But also the name of the language, with Slovenčina (Slovak) and Slovenščina (Slovenian), sounds almost same. 😉
This video is a complete waste of time. You need to go way back into history (early Dark Ages) to start explaining, not just the 19th century. Both countries are named after its people, which are both of Slavic origin. Slovakia simply means the Land of the Slovaks, while Slovenia the Land of the Slovenes (in English) so your notion that somehow those are political coinage names is somewhat laughable. Over one thousand years ago the lands between today's Slovakia and Slovenia was not inhabited by non-Slavic speaking population as it is the case today (German/Hungarian). There is where you should start your research.
Of course. It is enough to find where is Nitra. Who was Pribina and his son Koceľ (in slovak language) = Gozel or Chozil(in slovenian language). Nitra is the oldest Slovak town, where both lived in 9. century.
Actually it's Kocelj (pronounced mostly without the "J" at the end) in Slovene. There are variations as you said it, but have been long forgotten in most of the country (haven't heard one person say Gozel for instance) always Kocelj.
@@MP-qi3hw sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kocelj yes, but he is son of Pribina, Nitra's prince. Main square in Nitra castle is Pribina square: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pribina_Square_in_Nitra#/media/File:Knie%C5%BEa_Pribina.jpg
The word Slovenia is NOT just 200 years old. It's al least 2000 years old (Romans called it Sklavenia), but most likely much much older in different forms. (Venetia, Enetoi, Slovonicu ...)
I dont care if people mistake us slavs or switch our names we are brothers and we have similiar languanges our history is connected and were peacefull to each other as far as i know
It's basically the self-name of the Slavs in general. You see, SLAVJANE, slavs, slavonic, etc. comes from LATER connotation of the name, originating from a word 'SLAVA' (meaning GLORY) thus 'SLAVJANE' being something like 'GLORIOUS', while really it more likely was 'SLOVENE', (which comes from 'SLOVO', being a lierally 'a WORD'), which means 'people who speak words' i.e. THE SAME LANGUAGE, and a very common name for foreigners, mostly happening to be germanic, being - 'NEMTSY' from 'NEMOY' i.e. 'MUTE' - those who DON'T speak their language. There's a fact to illustrate - there was a tribe group as early as in 9-10 century refered to as '(SEVESKIE) SLOVENE' (i.e. '(northern) slavs') living as far as around Novgorod, and almost reaching Gulf of Finland and lake Ladoga. The had nothing to do with Slovenia or Slovakia, still they share the name.
***** There is no such thing as "Slav race". We Slavs are close to each other in terms of language, but biologically, we are completely different (for example, Slovaks, while close to other West Slavs like Czechs and Poles, have much more common with Hungarians and Austrians than with Russians, simply because we lived next to each other for more than 1000 years, while Russians were quite far away).
You are right, but that does not change the fact that people in early Middleages thought Hungarians are connected to Huns. Actually, I am not sure if the German term Ungarn does not have some connection to Huns. What people believe and what is the reality often differ.
Fun fact: im a slovak Slovakia is Slovensko and Slovenia is Slovinsko In fact sometimes slovaks put on slovenian hymna on accident and slovenians put on slovaks hymna on accident just so you know in slovak it is the same name only the E in Slovensko is replace by an I Slovinsko
It's more like linguistic classification than geographical. Just like with the term Slav. There is no historical evidence "Ancient Slavs" used that word as an umbrella term for every Slavic speaking person.
Nice Video, here are some helpful facts: In old slavic, "slovo" means something similair to "word" in english. Some modern slovenian words still carry this in them, like "slovnica" (grammar), "nasloviti" (to address), and "posloviti" (to say "goodbye"). To ancient slavs, "slovani" were people of the same "word" or language, if you will. People who speak (in an understandable way), etc. That is also why, we call the germans, who are neighbours to most slavs: "nemci", because "nem" means being unable to speak comprehensively. In old latin, slavic people were called "sclaveni", which is a latinized version of "slovani". The word "slave" probably comes from "sclaveni".. When the slavic tribes became too big to not get noticed (~550AD+), there were already established empires and barbarians around, so.. yea. I come from Slovenia, but also have distant roots from south Germany and Northern Italy (with surnames Schneller & Papa respectively). Europe has a tight culture, where everything is interconnected in some way, the further you go back.. It feels good to know your roots, but dont let them define your future. Peace & pozdravljeni bratje in sestre!
forgive me for saying this.... but in the material you go around the point. Well, foreigners who confuse those countries are just ignorants, I guess. More intriguing thing for me would be the fact that both in Slovak and Slovene those names are so similar: names of one's own language, nation/country and the names of the other. Compare on wikipedia. I'm not sure if I've put it right what I mean ;)
Dragan Bozilov it is just some linguistic denomination, they are always dividing to subgroups. It is interesting that south-Slovenian dialect sounds similar to Russian language. So yes, this are pretty much one peoples when u don't use offical language dictionarries and alphabets
most of this "science" isconfusion of German historians.They have homework how to claim about nonhistorical Slavic tribes in Europe. And whois first on menu? Czech, Slovak, Slovene and Poland. "Drang nach Osten" is still in action. With sword, culture or money. Neveerending story.
Fact: names of those two contries sound even more similar in czech: slovensko, slovinsko, slovensko is slovakia and slovinsko is slovenia, difference is just that e/i
In Slovak the words for both Slovenia and Slovakia are literally 1 letter apart. Slovakia is 'Slovensko' and Slovenia is 'Slovinsko' , but in Slovenian it's 'Slovenija' for Slovenia and 'Slovaška' for Slovakia, which is even funnier because 'vážka' means dragonfly in Slovak.
As Slovenian (I am from Slovenia), if someone asks what language we speak,, we say "slovensko" lol. Apparently we have same word for when we are asked. We never say Slovinsko. Maybe that means "slovensko" (Slovene) = "slovinsko" (Slovak).
Thank you for making a normal video that is not filled with annoying memes every minute, which is getting popular for some fucking reason. The word "slověninъ" was pronunced nicely, but for example "Tomáš Garrique Masaryk" was horrible. Thank you for your time!
My slovenian friends tell me that bosnians,serbs,macedonians,albanians etc are all the same to them. They are all Čefurji as far as he's concerned. And he means it. Then I tell him well then Slovakia and Slovenia are the same to me. At that point he goes all out to tell me how there is a huge difference between the two. Mind fuck.
When you say "two things are same to me", it can mean multiple things. My bet is your Slovenian friend means "those guys are all assholes, Croat, Serbian, Bosnian, they are all the same, I don´t give a fuck", while you saying how Slovakia and Slovenia is the same means "I don´t know anything about you and I have no idea who you are".
armin38822 It has nothing to do with ignorance, if you really think Slovenes think Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks, Albanians and so on are the same, you couldn´t be more wrong. My guess is you are not from Slavic country, because if you were, you would know we know other Slavs. I know there are Czechs, Moravians and Silesians in Czech Republic and they all have different culture, but Cthulhu help me if I won´t always see them all as Czechs and hate them with passion during ice hockey championship.
I'm a Bosnian who was born and rasied in Slovenia and I've expirenced both cultures from close. So I know what's going on. Most of them see everybody from those countries as garbage while they bend down for the EU union and everybody that lives geographicly above them.
Čefurji is a denigrating label for people who immigrated to Slovenia from other parts of Yugoslavia and speak the same language. Slovenians and Slovaks don't speak the same language. Shiptars also don't speak the same language, although they are also labeled as chefurs sometimes.
Oliver Daubner "English term"? More like general term. The C from Century isn't pronounced as a ts, but rather as s. His example wasn't good, that's what I meant.
It was probably mentioned here already, but I want to say something... the country names of Slovakia and Slovenia have their origin in the way the people called themselves, which comes from "Slavs". In the history of the Slovak people men called themselves "Sloven" and women "Slovenka". In Slovenia it is "Slovenec" and "Slovenka". The difference here is solely linguistical. Because of their similar Slavic languages both called themselves the same way, while the endings differed because of the grammatical structures used. We can now still see it in the way women in both countries are called "Slovenka". At some point in history men in Slovakia started to call themselves "Slovak" instead of "Sloven" while the name for women stayed the same. (Apparently nobody really knows why.) Also the Slovak country name "SLOVENsko" shows the original name. The similarity in the English language is there because the country names where coined from the way people (men) call themselves in both countries. The Slovens called their country "Slovenija" (name of the people), while they named "Slovakia" "Slovaska" (also from the name Slovak, just like in Engish). The Slovaks called Slovenia "Slovinsko" and I honestly think this turn was just made because they could not call both countries "Slovensko", so they made it "Slovensko"(Slovakia) and "Slovinsko"(Slovenia).
*You're wasting time explaining the history but you haven't at all explained the origins and the etymology of the word.* No offense but this video is a big waste of time. A simple google search can answer this question in 5 seconds.
I agree. I was expecting to see the language(ic) origins of Slovakia and Slovenia. In fact, in Slovakia they call their country "Slovenska/Slovensko" which is similiar to the word "Slovenia." Though I'm neither Slovakian or Slovenian, so I might be wrong
The word 'Slovenec' was first used in the 19th century? Where' d u get that from, we had our first monuments written in our language around the year 1000 and our first 2 books in the 16th!
@@cubixman9676 Also our charman of Academia of science and art means the same. He is professor of history but he didn`t read first two printed Slovenian books. lol
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Chess.
Settlers of Catan
"Slovenka" in Slovak = Slovak woman
"Slovenka" in Slovene =Slovene woman
Very nice. I am Serbian... in Serbian language word Slovenka means Slovene and Slavic women... Serbian word for Slovak women is Slovakinja.
Its slovenian not slovene
Why Slovenian, why not Slovene?
@@komezajebadadoemvam1130 slovene sound too weird for me
well all Slav languages are very similar and almost any Slav is easily able to learn other Slav language. I don't speak Croatians but I have never had any problems with communication when I went there for vacation and same goes for Poland. When I got drunk with Polish people, like really drunk :D we understood each other perfectly with some I did not even register they are speaking a different language then I :D :D
Naši bratje Slovaki, pozdrav iz Slovenije.
Naši bratia Slováci, pozdrav zo Slovinska.
Our brothers Slovaks, greetings from Slovenia.
Поздрав од Македонија до сите Словени.
"zo Slovinska" ;) Zdravím.
Slovenian and Slovakian nation are one slavic the closest nation divided by Hungary,because land between Slovakia and Slovenia named Panonia was given or taken by Hungariens.It was done to break Slovanian Empire make the Slavic people weak.We can see it now,what is happening among all Slavic nations..But we have One Slavic nation strong and proud.It is Russia.If we were smart and see the future. we would stick together and for sure we would not have problems with those third class emigrants ...and all other problems leading to genocide all Slavs and white race generally.
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When you said "Yugoslavia" the subtitles said "Jesus loves you" LOL
For me it says "Yogeshwara"
My one says Yugaslavia ?
@@kakashisensei1378 Yea, mine says too, the second time he said it.
Mine too it syas on the second time he says Yugoslavia Jesus loves you
To me I'd guess one comes from a nominal/demonymic form (slovak)
and the other stems from an adjective. Both ultimately mean people of the word, that is to say speakers of a Slavic language.
My countries, my blood, my father is Slovenian and my mother is Slovak, well my mother is Slovenka in every case, greetings from Hungary. 💕
How do you say Slovenec (your dad) po Slovaško?
Almost the same but instead 'e' we use 'i' - Slovinec.
FN LS We have Rusyns in Slovakia as well. sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rus%C3%ADni#/media/File:Rus%C3%ADni_na_Slovensku_2001.png
Slovak... we call them like that
Are you your dad's otrok?
ouh ,mentioning both Kosovo and Macedonia , that's a risky move :D
Its risky because its incorrect. You have to respect international law. And according to that law, neither Kosovo is a sovereign country by any definition, nor is Macedonia named like that. Its like calling United Kingdom, just Kingdom.
KoLmk _ I think you mean the "United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland"
+Nyancat7 Exactly. See you respect the International law :D
+Nyancat7 I perfectly understand why in everyday conversations you wouldn't use the full name. But nations are sensitive when it comes to public stuff like this video. So to be politically correct and not piss off anyone, the best way is just to respect what is internationally accepted. :)
KoLmk _ It de-facto is, just like Taiwan
Actualy the problem is that we (slavs) love ourselves (other slavs) but we can't stand being together in one cointry xD
Dr. Anton Perdih - Iskanje slovenske samobitnosti: Izvor Slovencev in drugih Evropejcev: th-cam.com/video/7XsW8pZyw6g/w-d-xo.html
Izvor Slovencev in drugih Evropejcev - Dr. Anton Perdih - 15.11.2016 - Knjižnica Duplek: th-cam.com/video/l8-dXqUo7pk/w-d-xo.html
Iskanje slovenske samobitnosti: Smo Slovenci staroselci ali prišleki? - Dr. Duša Krnel Umek: th-cam.com/video/zlqrbmNHz4A/w-d-xo.html
Dr. Cyril A. Hromnik: th-cam.com/video/rPXeftz2fKE/w-d-xo.html
Bistvo Hromnikove Slovenske staroselske teorije je moč opisati z dvema ključnima trditvama:
- 1). Slovanov nikoli ni bilo, saj so to ime iznašli šele v začetku 19. stoletja na Češkem, z očitnim namenom zabrisati sledi starih Slovenov, prednikov današnjih Slovencev in Slovakov. Hkrati z iznajdbo t.i. Slovanov zablatencev (tistih iz močvirskega blata) so razvili tudi izmišljeno teorijo o njihovem prihodu v srednjo Evropo v 6. in 7. stoletju. Nobenih »proto-Slavjanov« in zagotovo nobenih novopečenih »Slovanov« iz 19. stoletja, nikoli ni bilo. V Pripjatska močvirja sta jih potisnili nemška imperialna šola zgodovinarjev, ki so sanjali o možnem "Drang nach Osten" in češka šovinistična šola (F. Palacký, L. Niederle, V. Chaloupecký, itd.), ki sta na tak način hoteli odstraniti Slovene - prednike Slovakov in Slovencev, iz vsakomur očitne verske, kulturne in trgovske prvotne domovine Slovenov ob Donavi.
- 2). Domovina starih Slovenov je umeščena v Srednjo Evropo, na obeh straneh reke Donave od Tater in Karpatov na vzhodu, do Jadranskega morja in Alp na zahodu. Sloveni - Slovenci in Slovaki, so tu prebivali že najmanj 3.000 let pred našim štetjem. Dr. Hromnik s svojimi raziskavami daje povsem prav Juriju Venelinu (Starodavni in današnji Slovenci), ki je enake trditve postavil v prvi polovici 19. stoletja ter opisal tri rimsko-slovenske vojne. Ob tem je pomebno, da dr. Hromnik Venelinovega dela sploh ne pozna, do svojih spoznanj pa se je dokopal povsem neodvisno.
www.hervardi.com/jurij_venelin.php
Starodavni in današnji Slovenci, Ю́рий Ива́нович Вене́лин: www.eliza.si/izdelek/starodavni-in-danasnji-slovenci-venelin/
Sklaveni Sloveni Slovenci - G. Marjan Moškon: th-cam.com/video/4CiBBi8bMm4/w-d-xo.html
Od kod Slovenci? - G. Marjan Moškon: th-cam.com/video/-viLZDVJEmk/w-d-xo.html
SISchminka Hvala za povezave. Poznam knjigo g. Perdiha, Venelina pa ne...upam, da se da kje kaj dobit o njem.
I'm slav and I don't like Russians too much but ok.
Don't understand why it is so, what bother us to live in the one country? Our languages are really same for example I have a friend from Poland( i'm russian ) and he speaks polska, i speak russian and we understand each other.
@@sakom0793 а украинцы нравятся?
It's simple! Old Slovenian word for Slavs was Sloveni (now, Slovani). So, country of Slavs(Sloveni) is Slovenija. Same thing is with Slovaks. We are the only two Slavs tribes that keep original name.
That is not true!
@@alekshukhevych2644 IT is
I think I accidently posted this on a wrong comment, Yes I know this one is totally true lol... In my language its SLOVJANY, SLOVO means word, SLAVA means glory.
@@TadeSLO To je taki bullshit. Niti ena teroija ne obstaja da so slovani živeli po celi evropi.
Misogynist kdo je to reku ti?niso bili slovani ampak veneti
When you try to explain the similarity between names Slovenia and Slovakia you should really look to history and the answer is obvious and has nothing to do with being part of bigger country.
After the fall of Roman Empire it was the same nation which inhabited whole panonic plain and more (nowadays Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Croatia and Slovakia). The name Slovenian and Slovakian both derive from "slav" which is old slavic word for "word". Members of the same nation spoke the same language (old slavic) and they understood each other so they called themselves nation of word (slavs). By the way slavic word for the Germans in "Nemci" = the mute nation -> since they did not understand each other.
When Hungarians arrived they settled in Panonic plain (nowdays Hungary) and splitted the slavic nation in two parts (Slovenian and Slovakian) After that both parts of nation lived by itself and developed by itself into two different nations. But since deriving from the same old slavic nation we still have lots in common. From flag, similar language, similar culture and so on.
It is true, that we were both part of bigger countries in history, but it has nothing to do with the name. It has roots thousands years before Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
This also works as a good TL;DW.
Peter Merše heyy I kinda wrote the same thing :D I guess we've been reading the same books haha
I'm from northern Croatia and I can say that prior to 17th century we were also called "Slovenci" :D I've been reading a lot about that and there are many evidences that three of us might had been one big nation at 5th or 6th century because our languages are pretty similar and we on the north of Croatia are not even speaking Croatian, but Kajkavian language that is pretty similar to Slovene and also Slovakian, making me think sometimes that it is a mixture of Slovene and Slovakian xD I'm right now studying in Slovenia so I can also speak Slovene and back in my hockey days I've been one month in Slovakia and never had problem with understanding and didn't even use English at all. In Slovenia and Slovakia I always have the same feeling like when I'm home :D
Maybe even before 5th and 6th century. I think it goes back to the times of the Roman repubic :) What do you study? I study in Ljubljana too.
A few years back we went to Czechia and they didn't really understand Slovenian but they understood Croatian haha.
True, I read somewhere that the Kajkavians, Slovenians and Slovkians were pretty much the same :D However the Štokavci and Čakavci (did I write that correctly?) are the real Croatians. Also a part of Croatia is called Slavonia which makes it even more similar to Slovenia, right :D? Is it true that Croatians were warriors, hired by an Eastern Roman emperor and later given land in nowadays Croatia and there they mixed with Slovenians :)?
Hello Slovenia 🇸🇮 people. Greetings from Slovakia🇸🇰 and hello Czech 🇨🇿 people too.
Slovenes, Slovaks and Czechs
You are kinda missing the point here. Both Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia are modern constructs, which were create long time after names for these two nations were created. The names simply originate from proto-slavic name for Slavs, that means, they simply call themselve "Slav". That´s beacause they share similar faith, as they were slavic people in non-slavic countries (Bavaria/HRE, resp. Hungary). Btw, to take similarity further - Slovak name for Slovakia is Slovensko.
Do you eat some crazy mushrooms? First Slav isnot slavic word. Proto-slavic? Bavaria is far away. Hungarian weren`t there until 10th century. Almost all around were Slavic tribes with other names. Your conclusion are really insame. As Hungarian who spokeabout Hungarian before Slavs in Europe.
@@bojanstare8667 1) this isn't what mushrooms do to people, educate yourself on drugs; 2) Octopus is absolutely correct. Bavaria doesn't belong here but the territory of modern Slovania absolutely has been ruled by the Holy Roman Empire (a non-Slavic entity), thus the need for the Slavs (predecessors of modern-day Slovenes) to develop their own, unique identity. Unlike most other Slavs, however, the Slovenes (and the Slovaks) simply didn't adopt an entirely name and just stuck with the evolution of the original name of the single Slavic tribe. The same thing helped create the Slovak identity, yes, the Hungarians only settled the area in the 10th century, but precisely *because* of the creation of the Hungarian state, the Slovaks - as a Slavic population in a non-Slavic state - needed to develop a separate identity. Before that, in the Great Moravia, there was no need for a separate, unique identity, as the empire itself was mostly a Slavic empire. And, just like the Slovenes, they somehow remembered that they originated from an ancient Slavic tribe and that they were Slavs in a non-Slavic state, so they just went with the name "Slavs", which, over the millenia, evolved into the modern form; 3) Slav totally is a Slavic word and was used by proto-Slavs to name themselves: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs_(ethnonym)#Etymology
Slovenian language: Slovenščina
Slovak language: Slovenčina
Now that's what you call confusing.
I speak Slovenian and i hate it lol. I really do wish that i was born in an english-speaking country... Oh well ik i could move to an english country but prob wont... Poverty is pretty high in Slovenia since most of the low paying jobs give 600€ minimum. That's just enough to get by in a month by yourself and maybe keep like 50€ to yourself. Honestly English is much easier for me to speak even thought it isn't my mother language. (I speak English since 5) I am way more comfortable speaking English than Slovenian, my language is just confusing I guess... Too much to learn so i just prefer speaking english. (except in real life of course, since most people don't know english really well).
@@cubixman9676 to be honest, i can see where you're coming from. English sounds way more natural and better in a conversation. Slovenian, for me, just sounds awkward. 😂
@@cubixman9676 Look man, I'm Slovak and I hate Slovak language. It's inconsistent bullshit. I would say go for your dreams. Plus I wouldn't feel weird for not speaking your native language as your first language (that's quite a difference), because me and you are on the same boat basically. I'm planning to move to London for example. Slovakia is too really poor, basically everything from economy, all the gains go to the capital. And I'm even lucky I'm on the western side of the country, you don't want to see the average eastern/middle Slovak village. God I'm surprised you are in exactly the same problem as me. OK so push on I guess.
Oop-
@@sakom0793 tiahni
I hate when i am on my holiday and somebody ask me: where you from? me: Slovakia. Random guy: aaah... Slovenia. Me:no, slovakia.
Seriously? I say my family's heritage is from Slovenia and have to correct everyone who automatically assumes Slovakia.
truth
People know Slovakia more than Slovenia, I think
Random guy: Ohh so Russia right? Me: For fuck sake....
or even if someone said it right at the first time, they will ruin it a second after, with some phrase like "Ljubljana is a beautiful city" or so..
'Croats' is pronounced 'Crow-ats' rather than 'Crotes'
Of course it is, I'm so bad at this haha, cheers for the comment.
Polish uses dż. Serbocroatian uses đ. Bulgarian uses dj.
Enver Hoxha dž or đ in croatian language
Can't even imagine, what you have in mind for sound 'y' (in IPA chart it is almost same as 'i' or 'ü') :) If by 'j' you mean 'dg', then in slavic langs we have 'dg' letter combinations.
But again, for a lot of people, not only slavic (swedish e.g.), 'j' means something like 'i', not 'dj' like in english.
South slavic languages have soft spoken and hard spoken "j" that's written as "đ" and "dž" respectively.
To make this shit more intresting Croatia has a region which is called Slavonia.
Yes my grandmother was born there and I'm from uruguay, pozdrav
To make this shit even more interesting part of Poland's coast is called Slowinskie and used to be populated by Slowincy who unfortunately got Germanized.
@@CrazyLeiFeng oof
Mate the mess can’t be complete without mentioning SLOVÁCKO, region in eastern Moravia/Czech rep. :)
To make shit more interesting Slavonia was once called Slovenje by Slavonians and Slavonians ain't Croats.
Who from Slovakia 🇸🇰
Ahoj!
Kosovo je Serbia
i am from slovenia and i read: who from slovenia
hahahahhah
Hello my slovakian brother in from Slovenia
Ahoj, my aunt is from Slovakia
Indonesia
Completely off topic video. Explaining etymological connection that was formed in middle ages by recent history that has nothing to do with it...
Slovaks were not a thing in middle ages, it was just "slavic population of northern Hungary". Slovak identity did not become a thing until 1800s, when the idea of a nation became a thing. It is at this time when the word Slovak starts to appear. Before it was "Sloven" or something like that, which is just a hungarian/german word for a Slav.
@@martinsmolik2449 Are you drank? Hungarian/German word? Hungarian say Tot. German say Windisch or Wenden. Where you have found that "fact"?And what were Hungarian? Nation? Just one tribe, mostly of wariors. And German? In this time (10th century) was writen the oldest Slavic text in latin letters: Brižinski spomeniki. Professor Josef Dobrovsky has claimed in his letter to Jernej Kopitar, that this text was writen in Slovene. And not in someundefined Slavic language. Menas Slovak and Slovene have in 10th century Duchy of Pannonia. And before that in 7th century Slovene`s Carinthia. Are you from Czech republik?
spomeniki znie to ako zdrobnenie. V slovenských
narečiach je to bežné slovo drobniť. Také staré
záznamy by sa mali porovnávať z narečiami.
Lebo majú starý pôvod.
I have a question. Why country Georgia and the state Georgia are called the same?
And the island
Ika Gogitidze The country is most likely named after St. George, their patron saint, while the state is named after one of the British Hanoverian kings, i'm not sure which George.
Gavin Herrera and the island?
You need to understand that the way you call countries in English doesn't mean that that's their real name. Georgia (the country) isn't called Georgia in Georgia (they call themselves Sakartvelo) It's just in English that they have the same name. And the English decided to call them that because they used the st. George's cross as their banner, whereas the state of Georgia is called that so to give respect to the reigning British king at the time of the colony's founding, king George II.
Kirca I know, I live there
The languages in Slovenia and Slovakia are similar too. I think more than Croatian and Slovak Language. We have even the towns with the same names, like Nove Mesto. 😀 Truly said, Slovakia should also be called Slovenia, because in or language is Slovakia called Sloven-sko. And Slovenia means Slovinsko. Women are also called Sloven-ka, and everything concerning with Slovakia is sloven-ský. (- means sufix). And according this logic the men in Slovakia should be called Sloven-i. Once I have read somewhere, that in the far past the word "Slovak" was something like invective.
I think, originally in the region from Slovakia to Slovenia and Croatia lived one nation Sloven-s.
Pozdravujem slovansko-slovensko-slovinských bratov na Jadrane... 😀
Yeas I think too from logic only so kind be.
Maybe... MAYBE, it's because they're both Slavic. Hmm? *HMM?!* Seriously, some of these educational channels make videos so pointless it hurts.
It is simple. Before have Hungary ariving in Europe we were one nation. In 10th century was Duchy of Lower Pannonia under duke Kocel. South west of Pannonia was the north east Sloveniaof today. Then Hungarian have come inPannonia and have split us in two parts.
@@bojanstare8667 Yeah, I'm Hungarian, I know.
@@MaxwellTornado And? If e are normal people is not problem at all.
@@MaxwellTornado What it was it is history. It is just matter of today and future.
Šekoslovakia, Šek Republic, sice mi asi prd rozumíš, ale říkáš to fakt srandovně :-D
CaelosCZ tak uz som si zvikol 😂
Jj
And Šeks...
taky tam řiká naše normální CH i když se to v angličtině vyslovuje s K :-D
Jj
I am from Slovakia and I thought a lot of people don't know that Slovakia is exist!😂 but thank you so much that you made this video 😀 (sorry for my english)
Niekto zo Slovenska?? 😀
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@@t_kanukova ahoooj 😂😭
Noo ne ze Slovenska ale z Čech!
Ja 🙋🇸🇰
Ja nie
I like how you mispronounce half the countries' names
He's called "Name Explain" not "Name pronounce".
Its still a fail, none the less. lol.
at least he's trying... your English isn't far from a fail either.
English speakers are renowned the world over for butchering every single foreign word without failing.
Doesn't do a very good job of explaining the origins of the names either. Both come from the root words Slavs use to describe themselves: "slovo" and "sloven" - i.e. someone who is able to speak. In many Slavic languages, the word for German speakers (their nearest and most numerous neighbours) is the exact opposite of this, "nemec" or "nemac" - i.e. someone who cannot speak, who is mute.
We can imagine then, a time when Slavic tribes would refer to themselves and other tribes with whom they share an intelligable language as "sloveni" (those who can speak) and to foreigners as "nemci" (those who cannot speak).
1:58 The Czech Republic is named from Petr Cech, the legendary footballer who once worked at a bus terminal in Fulham. He now works under a Frenchman as a digger in Highbury.
#AlternativeFacts
LOL...so the republic was named after a goal keeper.
lol :D no bro... i'm from Slovakia, we have hockey player ''Slovák'' and Slovakia isn't named from Martin Slovák :D
Sosuke Sagara omg😂😂😂
Mia is coming ktorý lol :D
You should add the region of Slavonia to this... It's not its own nation, but it's a recognized region name nonetheless... Meaning that this spaghetti soup of Slovenes, Slavs, Slovaks and so on only gets deeper and deeper :D
We were all the same ethnic group called Sloveni with the same language but different dialects.
I recall going to family reunions as a child, and fist fights would break out over whether the family was slavonian or slovenian. The matter was settled after several shots of slivovitz, with all agreeing that the family was sloppydrunkian.
@@daruszero Yes? Same as Kingdom Yugoslavia with united Serbs tribe?
*sees you've called Kosovo a country*
Oh man this is gonna be good, let's see how the Serbians take this one
And using name 'Macedonia' without that ridiculous prefix.
Waiting for Greek invasion in comment section.
Wait for Kosovian and Macedonian peoples invasion under comments from Greek and Serbians :D.
Russian Hackers was attack us, America help us and we do World War III. :D
There are perhaps thousands of cases around the World where locations have same names in different countries. Nobody gets butt-hurt about it ... except Greeks who look like whiny special snowflakes who got their delicate feelings hurt so much.
Grow up, people. The rest of the World is laughing at you.
But it's a country now. Serbians should get over it already.
Both lovely nations. Greetings from your neighbour Hungary from a Hungarian :)
OMG an actual Hungarian that accepts Slovakia.
Finally. A Hungarian that doesnt hate us for no reason 🇸🇰🇭🇺
@@Bart42000 Yes, of course. The younger generation sees things differently. In addition, we have mixed, there can be no much animosity between nations. I am an example, half Czech (and a little bit Slovak), half Hungarian, but born and living in... Romania.
@@LaszloVondracsek IDK what it looked like on HU side on 90s and 00s years but on Slovak side we have political and media pressure to hate hungarian for what has happened in the past... But when some politics change, and politics and media are focused on something other for some time, its chnage a lot, and i think is a much better.
Slovenians are good people:) greetings from Slovakia
AS a Slovene I can detest that this has been poorly researched
As everything when is going for small Slavs countries.
I'm surprised you didn't mention that both Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia both formed in the breakup of Austria-Hungary.
I am depressed now
Except for Serbia and FYRM thry were independent kingdoms
Those were two artificial countries.
@@imperatorantonius222 Montenegro was kingdom, not FYRM.
the dislikers are serbs who heard the word "Kosovo"
The other dislikes were Greeks who heard the word “Macedonia”
Kosovo is Kosovo and not Serbia.
Greetings from Croatia :)
@@MrVialpando KOSOVO je SRBSKO! Pozdravujem zo Slovenska.
@@MrVialpando kosovo JE serbija...
Pozz Iz slovenije
Serbia should return in Romania, as It was in the past
Hi guys, im from slovakia :) slovakia is slavic state and slovenia too :) its from history all
I thought Slovenia was Balkan.. Oh okay
Slovakia is a Slovan state not Slavic state because we are Slovans I am from Slovakia 🇸🇰 to.
Dr. Anton Perdih - Iskanje slovenske samobitnosti: Izvor Slovencev in drugih Evropejcev: th-cam.com/video/7XsW8pZyw6g/w-d-xo.html
Izvor Slovencev in drugih Evropejcev - Dr. Anton Perdih - 15.11.2016 - Knjižnica Duplek: th-cam.com/video/l8-dXqUo7pk/w-d-xo.html
Iskanje slovenske samobitnosti: Smo Slovenci staroselci ali prišleki? - Dr. Duša Krnel Umek: th-cam.com/video/zlqrbmNHz4A/w-d-xo.html
Dr. Cyril A. Hromnik: th-cam.com/video/rPXeftz2fKE/w-d-xo.html
Bistvo Hromnikove Slovenske staroselske teorije je moč opisati z dvema ključnima trditvama:
- 1). Slovanov nikoli ni bilo, saj so to ime iznašli šele v začetku 19. stoletja na Češkem, z očitnim namenom zabrisati sledi starih Slovenov, prednikov današnjih Slovencev in Slovakov. Hkrati z iznajdbo t.i. Slovanov zablatencev (tistih iz močvirskega blata) so razvili tudi izmišljeno teorijo o njihovem prihodu v srednjo Evropo v 6. in 7. stoletju. Nobenih »proto-Slavjanov« in zagotovo nobenih novopečenih »Slovanov« iz 19. stoletja, nikoli ni bilo. V Pripjatska močvirja sta jih potisnili nemška imperialna šola zgodovinarjev, ki so sanjali o možnem "Drang nach Osten" in češka šovinistična šola (F. Palacký, L. Niederle, V. Chaloupecký, itd.), ki sta na tak način hoteli odstraniti Slovene - prednike Slovakov in Slovencev, iz vsakomur očitne verske, kulturne in trgovske prvotne domovine Slovenov ob Donavi.
- 2). Domovina starih Slovenov je umeščena v Srednjo Evropo, na obeh straneh reke Donave od Tater in Karpatov na vzhodu, do Jadranskega morja in Alp na zahodu. Sloveni - Slovenci in Slovaki, so tu prebivali že najmanj 3.000 let pred našim štetjem. Dr. Hromnik s svojimi raziskavami daje povsem prav Juriju Venelinu (Starodavni in današnji Slovenci), ki je enake trditve postavil v prvi polovici 19. stoletja ter opisal tri rimsko-slovenske vojne. Ob tem je pomebno, da dr. Hromnik Venelinovega dela sploh ne pozna, do svojih spoznanj pa se je dokopal povsem neodvisno.
www.hervardi.com/jurij_venelin.php
Starodavni in današnji Slovenci, Ю́рий Ива́нович Вене́лин: www.eliza.si/izdelek/starodavni-in-danasnji-slovenci-venelin/
Sklaveni Sloveni Slovenci - G. Marjan Moškon: th-cam.com/video/4CiBBi8bMm4/w-d-xo.html
Od kod Slovenci? - G. Marjan Moškon: th-cam.com/video/-viLZDVJEmk/w-d-xo.html
@@filip3312 We are Slavs, not Slovans. "Slovan" is a slovak translation of the word "slav." So, for English speaking people we are slavs 😊
@@MissSlovakia2 It is interesting that also in Slovene we have name Slovani for the same meaning. Just Serbs and Croats speak Sloveni instead Slovani. They want to be Slovene, was my first idea.
Fun fact: in Slovak language we call our language "slovenský" and in Slovenia they call their language "slovenski". One letter difference, same pronounciation. This sometimes causes funny situations when travelling.
Natalia Actually, it would be more right to point out that we (Slovenes) name our language "slovenščina". Whereas you (Slovaks) name your language "slovenčina". Again, very similar and confusing :D
@@QuinlanLJ Doesn't help that the languages are eerily similar for being South vs West Slavic. I wager, that if Slovenia didn't undergo germanization, the language would be even more similar to Slovak in some aspects, though, likely way more similar to Croatian as well.
"Slovenski" is Serbo-Crotaian for "slovenian", but "slovenčina" is "slovenian" in Slovenian. :)
@@ukilectric Wrong. In Serbo-Croatian language Slovenski mean Slavic. Sorry, it is used in Serbian, not in Croatian language. Both nations name Slovenian - Slovenački. And Slovenčina is Slovak language. Slovene language is Sloveščina. 🙂 Any way, Slovene language is more western than south Slavic language. Gramatic is very similar to Slovak language.
FUNFACT: in in Slovak language, the diference is only in one letter (Slovensko/Slovinsko),
FUNFACT 2: in both Slovak and Slovenian language, the language itself is called "Slovenčina"
In Slovenia the language is "slovenščina".If somebody ask me how I speak I say "slovensko".
Im from slovakia i know that :P
It is actually slovenščina,
FUNFACT 3: Got them all wrong bud
in Czech it's slovinština and slovenština, but slovaks hate that because ština means piss in slovak language :-D
0:37 kosovo and montenegro didn't break up from yugoslavia, montenegro broke up from serbia & montenegro and kosovo from serbia learn history ffs.
Also Kosovo is disputed territory just like Abkhazia, South Ossetia and many other similar states.
Kosta M. I know, but it didn't/isn't broke/breaking appart form yugoslavia
Canary Mapping Yup.
Andi Rain LoL, so much disinformation in one post.
You could call Montenegro breaking off Serbia&Montenegro and Kosovo breaking off Serbia the continuation of Yugoslavia breaking up. Just saying.
To make things even trickier, there is a region in Croatia called Slavonia (The eastern tip of the upper arm).
Anyone else from Slovenia🇸🇮
Yep i am! Ik im 1 year late but here i am. A fellow Slovenian crawling throught the comments searching for a fellow Slovenian!
@@cubixman9676 žiujo haha😊
Cuz they're both Slav countries?
Slovaks and Slovenes were the same or closely related people over a thousand years ago, united under a Frankish king named Samo, somewhere around the 7th century. This "Samo's realm" included parts of Slovakia, Czechia, Moravia, and Slovenia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samo
In both the Slovak and Slovene language, the word for woman is "slovenka." Both languages refer to their own lands as Slovensko or Slovinsko, "land of the slavs." Pronunciation changed over centuries.
Slovaks, Slovenes, Slovanians retain their original slavic names as "slavs" or "slovene" - from the slavic word "slovo" meaning people of the word, i.e. people they could understand. To support this, we can observe how the Slavs referred to the Germanic people they came into contact with as "nemec" which means "mute" - people that could not speak their language. Today, Germany is still called "Nemecko" by all slavic countries - land of the mutes.
How about Turkey (country) and turkey (bird).
The bird that Europeans saw in the new world remined them of another bird that came from the Ottoman Empire and so they called both a turkey, similar to what the colonists did with other plants/animals that were similar to things they saw at home.
Now this is an important question.
English associates the bird with Turkey, while most other languages associate it with India. I think in Turkish it's actually called a "hindi".
Tadeusz Kantor Turkey in Finnish is kalkkuna. Makes no sense
In spanish it's "pavo", "guajolote", "totol". I don't see India there. The first is from latin "PÁVÓ" with the same meaning. The second is from nahuatl "huey xolötl", big monster. The third also from nahuatl "tötolli" female bird. There are also "pisco", "guanajo" and "chompipe", don't know their etyms, but India does not look as a possible one.
Why are the flags quite similar too... the slavic tricolor with a three-peaked mountain one sharp, one rounded, with the cross and star being the difference
+Aditya C You don't know how many times I drew the wrong flag for the wrong country when I was making this video.
yeah... in case of these two flags the engineering joke about the rule of thumb applies - you get the right answer 50% of times :-D
what the hell is ''slavic tricolor''
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Slavic_colors
Aditya C Interesting. I'm surprised because ''slavic tricolor'' suggests that all Slavic countries would be included.
AMERICAN : Where are you from ?
ME : Slovakia
AMERICAN : RUSSIA ?!
I never get them confused. Weird English people
they really don't even sound similar. people are just ignorant.
@Tristan - The two countries' names aren't *that* similar in English, but when you say them in their own languages it gets a lot more confusing. For example the Slovak word for Slovakia is "Slovensko," while the Slovak word for Slovenia is "Slovinsko." So the difference is only one vowel sound, and the two vowels sound relatively similar to each other.
I thought it was rather lame that the video didn't even mention the names of these countries in their own languages (and each other's), and how that's more similar than the English names.
I down-voted it because of that, in addition to the fact that it uncritically listed Kosovo as an independent country without mentioning the ongoing dispute over its status.
BikeLion that's pretty interesting, now that does sound very similar! Yes, the Kosovo bit did kind of get to me too; why not recognize Nagorno Karabakh when it's such a similar situation? I didn't down vote the vid though.
In slovene, Slovenia is Slovenija and Slovakia is Slovaška (Slovashka)
nobody cares
The main point, that you unfortunately missed is the meaning of the word "slov(o)" in slavic languages. Both countries are called "The land of slov(o)" (only with different suffic).
Slovo means "word", or rather "language". This is motly due to their location next to the completely differently speaking country (Hungary and Italy). To distinguish this fact and to change their orientation towards slavic lands, they were both called "The land of the language".
(to understand this further, in both Czech and Polish, Germany is called "The land of the mutes")
very good point
Two words: Samo's empire
The main thing you forgot to mention is that both countries call themselves (in their own languages) "Slovenska Republika"
see in Google map:
Slovenska Bistrica
Slovenska Lupča
Slovenske Konjice
Slovenske Nove Mesto
Slovenski Javornik
Slovensky Grob
....
Villages in Slovakia:
Slovenske Nove Mesto
Slovenske Darmoty
Slovenske Pravno
Slovenska Lupca
Slovenska Kajna
Slovenska Ves
Villages/Towns in Slovenia:
Slovenske Konjice
Slovenska Bistirca
Slovenska Vas
also the words "Ulica" (street), "Cesta" (road) and "Dom" (house) are the same in both languages
words Nabrežje and Nábrežie are very simmilar.
When I look at Slovenia it feels like my country, like there is no difference, like it's home. I just need to learn Slovene language properly, which I'm going to and it won't be difficult.
Všetko je slovenské :D
@@matuspenkala468 vsetko je slovAnske :D
@@PeterK1 nemaju ypsilon
Slovenija je pekna, I have Slovak ancestry, both Slovakia and Slovenia are beautiful countries :) from Australia.
I have sent a package from US back home to Slovakia by FedEx. When it was late I found its tracking info showing it stuck in capital of Slovenia - wrong country. That explains why they couldn't find the correct town. After I explained to them how they got stuck, they managed to send it to the right place.
Well, Primož Trubar wrote Slouenci (Slovenci in modern Slovenien) in 1550... so what is the role of 20th 's century Jugoslavija in it?
He has also payed for translation and print of first croatian printed book.
Ne morem verjet kje te zagledam :) Včasih sodelavca na gener..
Lp
@@bojanstare8667 V bistvu ne za hrvate, ampak za Bezjake, kot je sam imenoval zahodno živeče prebivalce današnje hrvaške. Današnji Kajkavci so tako ali tako potomci Slovencev, oz. Slovincev ki so do prihoda Hrvatov preko Kolpe (na HR strani) živeli v t.i. Slovenieh.
Im Bosnian, I quite enjoyed this ! Thanks mate.
Why does Bosnia need to have Herzegovina appended onto its name, instead of just being called Bosnia?
@@carultch Are you stooped or you just born that way? Why United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nothern Ireland? Because are two different countries.
@@bojanstare8667 What I mean is what part of Bosnia is Bosnia, and what part is Herzegovina? And what is the history of how they are two separate nations, and how they are one sovereign state today.
@@bojanstare8667 Most people just call it the United Kingdom, even though its full name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. They aren't really two separate countries, but rather it is two separate geographical terms for landmasses. The largest of the British Isles (Great Britain), and a small part in the north of the second largest of the British Isles (Ireland).
@@carultch Ireland is not Britain. Just part of Ireland is in UK. In Bosnia in Hercegovina (BiH) are three nations: Croates, Serbs and Bosnian. Bosnia is north bigger part of state. Hercegovina is south smaller part. In Hercegovina live mostly Croats, in Bosnia live more Bosnian. Serbs are evrywhere mostly in east of all state. They are not just three nations but also three religions: chatolic (Croate), ortodox (Serbian) and muslim (Bosnian). State is divided first on Federation and Republika Srpska. In Federation live Croats and Bosnian in several kantones (like Switzerland). In republika Srpska live mostly Serbian. In Yugoslavia everybody says if in Bosnia is peace, everywere is peace. BiH was through the history "bure baruta sa kratkim fitiljem" - a barrel of gunpowder with a short ignition cord. The longest peace was in the time of Tito.
This is no secret. Slovenians and Slovaks were the same nation once. Hungarians, who aren't Indoeuropeans, came in this region in 10th century. This is not so far ago. Only fools can believe, that Slovenians came into this region in 6th century. Austrians named Slovenians- Windisch and Austrian capital is Wien. Only Slovenians and Lausitz Serbs have (singular) dual (plural). All other languages know only singular and plural. Yup, free your mind and connect this facts: Venets-Windisch, sclavi (slaves) - Slovenci - we are European' Aborigines.
May I correct you, Ukrainians also have singular and dual plural!
You're delusional. Whether a language retains a dual form or not has zero relation to how long the people who spoke it lived somewhere.
And today in Finland have another name of Russian - "vendele"!!!
50% of Sloveninan woman are related and have common ancestor ,according to a DNK of a woman who lived in Slovenia aprox. 7000 years ago
Slovakia got it too, we say for example (word for cat) mačka (singular) 2 mačky (dual) 5 mačiek (plural) and it is in almost all words in language
2:45 It's not "JÜG" it's "JUG"
We have East - Istok, West - Zapad, North - Sjever and South - Jug
vzhod, zahod and sever may be different, but there is only one Jug
@@robertjug8515 Ne govori mu zahod. A veš kaj pomeni zahod v srbohrvaščini? Wc. Kaj misliš kako zgleda avtobus poln Bosancev, ko se pelje mimo izvoza za Vič? Če pelješ za njimi, vidiš da se maje in poskakuje, ker Bosanci ob pogledu na tablo dol padajo od smeha.
Czech republic is now called Czechia. *in English*
Czechia is the shortening like "The French Republic"
Moist Towelette 37 i still call it the czech republic
GenMagus nope it's the new name
yet nobody here uses it :D just some politician said that it would be easier for peoples from other countries to rememember, but in every official paper it is still czech republic
Moist Towelette 37 The official name is Czech Republic the short name is Czechia
it's not just the names that are similar, but rather their flags look way too similar as well
Here in spanish we have a similar problem: Switzerland and Sweden are called Suiza and Suecia, in that order.
In Slovak it's Švajčiarsko and Švédsko... But I have a problem with Latvia and Lithuania. In Slovak it's Lotyšsko and Litva. :D The fact that both Litva and Latvia are short and vice versa and that Lithuania and Litva both start with "Lit" it always gets me lost when translating from English. :D
Wait... you literally put azbuka into czech in translator? Wth did you expected? Thats the sane logic if i put japanese letters into spanish. Ugh...
Google translate is language sensitiv and doesn`t matter if you write in hieroglife.
Explanation from slovenian guy. Ok first "Slovenia" and "Slovakia" were indeed in same country (Habsburg monarchy (later Austro-Hungarian) but to be honest we didnt have much connection with Slovakia. We had it with Austria and Croatia and more with Czech than Slovaks (also our language is closer to Czech than Slovak language. Anyway Slovenes were first named like that in 16th century in time of reformation. Primož Trubar named us Slovenes from slavic word Slava which means glory. How did the Slovaks get their name, i am not sure but might be the same.
Never ending Fun Fact: in Slovenia they call the child "otrok" what in Slovakia means "slave", what brings us to final conclusion that kids are slaves.
As a Slovenian watching this I feel proud & amused 😁
Why amused?
In Czech it's even more confusing:
Slovenský - Slovak (adj.)
Slovinský - Slovenian (adj.)
Slovanský - Slavic
But:
A Slovak person is Slovák for some reason
haha in slovak language: Slovensko, Slovinsko :)
Even smaller difference in their names :D
@@SuperSilverTrees if you can't distinguish I from E maby it's small difference for you :-D Are you Czech? Your name looks Czech or Slovak maybe.
we call them tóts.
way easier.
We have same names even in Czech :D i wonder if Polands have same names for Slovensko and Slovinsko also
@@puruttyaaa The Tots are only the Slovaks, not the Slovens....
Kosovo isn't officially a country
its a disputed territory, which was partially recognized not enough to be a full country
Snake Kosovo is Albania pretty much but for some reason they took Serbias land
Cry un recognize kosovo kosovo is albanian
is serbia
Kosovo je Srbija
Etimology of slavic names is very simple. Polish = field people from Slavic Polje (field), Czech from collect, join together, Sloven/Slovak from Slavic to comunicate, understand each other, Croat and Serb/Sorb actually have same etimology sirb+at (for collective plural) s changes to h, b to v and you have Srbad and Hrvat respectively...
3:49, segment about Slovenia, showing old coins of the Republic of Latvia
@NSA What are you talking about? Look ar the video at the timestamp I provided , what's shown there - Latvia's "santīms", not talars...
well, I'm from Slovakia, in fact, there is Slovakia, Poland, Czechia, all way down to Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, we are all Slovans.. even west Russia are Slovans.. or "Slavs". Like in France, there was a giant tribe of Gals, Switzerland was set by Helvets, you know.. and here we were just Slovans=Slavs. Then the Huns and Avars came, they made in the middle od Slovans their Hungary, so we divided and our languages divided a bit too.. well and also, we have more history than just Czechoslovakia, there was in the year 833 a Great Moravia, which was an empire big as from Germany to Romania... and even before, when there was a Roman Empire, there were Slovans fighting them :D big historical fun
Not really, our ancestors never got to fight Romans (well, technically we did, Byzantine Empire was Roman Empire and they fought Slavs), we came into Carpathian Basin in 5th century.
Also, Moravia (name Great Moravia is wrong, written sources from that time call it only as "Realm of Moravians") became that big only for a short time under Svätopluk, after he died, his sons lost most of his conquests and Moravia was reduced to its former lands in nowadays Moravia and western Slovakia.
@@filipbatora7523 You forgot Lower Pannonia in the same time in 10th century. And how do you know who fight with who? Attila has fought with western Roman empire. His army have had also Slavs. And if no Slavs were in that time in Roman empire, how all western nations have word for slave almost the same as Slavs?
You're right on the money. Part of why the two nations' names are a bit "generic" is down to them not really having independence before the 20th century. As provinces of defunct larger monarchies, their inhabitants simply identified as local Slavs, and the more official monikers solidified in later centuries. Not sure about more concrete Slovenian examples, but in Slovakia's case, the first consistent usage of "Slovak" (or "Slowak", etc.) cropped up in the 15th and 16th century. You occassionally had lesser-used synonyms, such as "Pannonian Slav", used by some authors in the 16th and 17th century as a more geographically sounding descriptor. For much of the modern era, it was some variation on what later became the term "Slovak".
They are one nation, after germanization and hungarization split them in two. But that is a scientific taboo, we don't talk about it. Genetics confirms it, there were no slavic migrations in 6th century. The word slav was derived from Slovensko in 19th century by linguist Šafarik in an attemp to unite the supressed peoples under Austrohungarians as a one slavic nation. They were inventing also new alphabets and gramar to overcome historical differences, but it ended up in a bigger differentiation since each group of slavs invented their own sistem that was ment to unite them. The new forms of slavic languages brought us new nations. The irony is now that the effort for uniting people brought them even more apart. 😕
That was a rather poor explanation, don't you think? There's actually a historical/linguistic theory on why Slovenia/Slovakia are named like that. It has to do with early medieval identities and the lack of an ethnic/national state, since both entities weren't ruled by its respective peoples, but by foreign powers (Bavaria/Austria). That's why the peoples assumed generic names Slovenia/Slovakia, i.e. the country of Slavs.
Bla, bla.. Both we have states and Duchy. After 14th century Habsburg monarchy took over everything. Befor we both have had our elite. But we were more democratic as German (barbarian). In Carinthia our ancestors have voted their own dukes. First it wasn`t dynasty. After Ernest von Habsburg they changed situation. After 1414. Even Ernst have had to swear in Slovene language.
Oh god...., sorry to say that, but this is just very bad and completely ignoring the true reasons! 🤦♂️
In this Video is a presentation on Czechlovakia and one on Yugoslavia, but neither has anything to do with Slovakia and Slovenia. The more than 1100-year history, which actually serves as the basis for that similarities between Slovakia and Slovenia and why these two countries are similar in name and language, is not mentioned with a single word!
🤷♂️
Slovenian is assigned to the South Slavic languages, but differs greatly from all other South Slavic languages.
Presumably, a closer connection with Slovak can be derived from Carantania and the Avars (6th - 8th centuries) and also King Samos empire: today's area of Moravia, Lower Austria, Northeast-Slovenia and Southwestern Slovakia. For example, similar elements of Old Slavic can be found in the Slovenian and Slovak language. The words for “Slovenian” and “Slovak” are often confusing: the Slovenes call their language "Slovenščina", the Slovaks their language "Slovenčina".
During and after the times of Carantania and the Avarmark (where the Alpine Slavs and later Western Slavs lived together), the Slavs called themselves Slovani or Slovanci, which could be the reason for these similarities between Slovaks and Slovenes.
These ancestors of Slovenes and Slovaks lived together under the Awar Empire and especially under King Samo.
But due to the constant attacks of the warlike Madyars, these Slavs were then separated and later the ancestors of the Slovenes formed the Principality of Carantania.
Because of this separation with the Hungarians in between (separation of the southern Western Slavs into Czechs, Slovaks and Slovenes), this is a reason for, why a certain relationship of Slovenian with the Western Slavic language Slovakian can be derived.
Thus, Slovene is the only South Slavic language that is also related to some parts with the West Slavic languages.
Especially with the Slovak language.
The Slovak language got over lots of centuries influences from its Slavic neighborhood (Czech, Polish, Ukrainian), therefore it developed completely different from Slovene language.
After the fall of the Great Moravian Empire, the Magyars gradually conquered today's Slovakia. After a brief conquest by Poland (1001-1030), the entire area returned under Hungarian rule. After the defeat of the Hungarian army at Mohács against the Ottomans in 1526, Slovakia fell to the Habsburg Monarchy by inheritance. In 1787 Anton Bernolák tried to create a unified Slovak language for the first time with the codification of the written Slovak language.
Slovenian, on the other hand, did not exist as a language for over a thousand years. This language was called the Windisch language in German. The Slovenian reformer Primoz Trubar (what is also the so called father of Slovenian language) also spoke exclusively about the Windisch language in his first Slovenian writings during the 16th century.
After Carantania came under the protection of Charlemagne in the 9th century, the Slovenes belonged for over 1000 years to the Frankish Empire, to the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, Bavaria, then to the Austrian Crown Land. And finally to Yugoslavia for only 73 years.
Both countries have many similarities in their history, they have always been occupied by a larger nation and never had their independence. Therefore it is also a phenomenon, that both, Slovaks and Slovenes, have preserved their language over so many centuries.
This as a very short explanation, why Slovenia and Slovakia sounds similar, and they also have other similarities too. But also the name of the language, with Slovenčina (Slovak) and Slovenščina (Slovenian), sounds almost same. 😉
This video is a complete waste of time. You need to go way back into history (early Dark Ages) to start explaining, not just the 19th century. Both countries are named after its people, which are both of Slavic origin. Slovakia simply means the Land of the Slovaks, while Slovenia the Land of the Slovenes (in English) so your notion that somehow those are political coinage names is somewhat laughable. Over one thousand years ago the lands between today's Slovakia and Slovenia was not inhabited by non-Slavic speaking population as it is the case today (German/Hungarian). There is where you should start your research.
Of course. It is enough to find where is Nitra. Who was Pribina and his son Koceľ (in slovak language) = Gozel or Chozil(in slovenian language). Nitra is the oldest Slovak town, where both lived in 9. century.
Actually it's Kocelj (pronounced mostly without the "J" at the end) in Slovene. There are variations as you said it, but have been long forgotten in most of the country (haven't heard one person say Gozel for instance) always Kocelj.
@@Mino987 knez Kocelj was slovenian knez 😉
@@MP-qi3hw sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kocelj
yes, but he is son of Pribina, Nitra's prince. Main square in Nitra castle
is Pribina square:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pribina_Square_in_Nitra#/media/File:Knie%C5%BEa_Pribina.jpg
Hudy "KoceLJ" je srbizirano ime za Kocla. Tukaj v Pomurju obstaja še nekaj priimkov Kocel.
The word Slovenia is NOT just 200 years old. It's al least 2000 years old (Romans called it Sklavenia), but most likely much much older in different forms. (Venetia, Enetoi, Slovonicu ...)
I dont care if people mistake us slavs or switch our names we are brothers and we have similiar languanges our history is connected and were peacefull to each other as far as i know
I guess putting the word "slav" into names for regions is just a slavic thing to do. Slavonia, Sloviansk, Bratislava, ...
Nimu Dash Everyone likes to see its race in its country name.
Altar Göktunca Slavs aren't a race. It's an ethicity.
Except word "slav" is English, while in Slovak (and Czech, not sure about other languages), "sláva" means glory and word for Slav is "Slovan".
It's basically the self-name of the Slavs in general. You see, SLAVJANE, slavs, slavonic, etc. comes from LATER connotation of the name, originating from a word 'SLAVA' (meaning GLORY) thus 'SLAVJANE' being something like 'GLORIOUS', while really it more likely was 'SLOVENE', (which comes from 'SLOVO', being a lierally 'a WORD'), which means 'people who speak words' i.e. THE SAME LANGUAGE, and a very common name for foreigners, mostly happening to be germanic, being - 'NEMTSY' from 'NEMOY' i.e. 'MUTE' - those who DON'T speak their language. There's a fact to illustrate - there was a tribe group as early as in 9-10 century refered to as '(SEVESKIE) SLOVENE' (i.e. '(northern) slavs') living as far as around Novgorod, and almost reaching Gulf of Finland and lake Ladoga. The had nothing to do with Slovenia or Slovakia, still they share the name.
***** There is no such thing as "Slav race". We Slavs are close to each other in terms of language, but biologically, we are completely different (for example, Slovaks, while close to other West Slavs like Czechs and Poles, have much more common with Hungarians and Austrians than with Russians, simply because we lived next to each other for more than 1000 years, while Russians were quite far away).
Why is Magyarorszag called Hungary im Englischen or what is the connection between hungry and Hungary??? Greetings from Germany
My bet is it is either taken from German (Ungarn) or they named Hungarians after Huns.
Filip Batora wrong huns in 5 century are not hungarians which came in centeal europe end of 9 cent..
You are right, but that does not change the fact that people in early Middleages thought Hungarians are connected to Huns. Actually, I am not sure if the German term Ungarn does not have some connection to Huns.
What people believe and what is the reality often differ.
@@boris75723 rather end of 10th century
Fun fact: im a slovak Slovakia is Slovensko and Slovenia is Slovinsko
In fact sometimes slovaks put on slovenian hymna on accident and slovenians put on slovaks hymna on accident just so you know in slovak it is the same name only the E in Slovensko is replace by an I Slovinsko
Just pointing it out, but the currency at 3:49 is exually an oly Latvian currency what was replaced by Eiro at January 2014.
Samo's union 1st common state, king Pribina & Kocelj, common state
how can Slovaks be west Slavs, if Slovenia lies further on the west than Slovakia?
It's more like linguistic classification than geographical. Just like with the term Slav. There is no historical evidence "Ancient Slavs" used that word as an umbrella term for every Slavic speaking person.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire covered Slovenia as well as Slovakia. Minor point perhaps, but worth mentioning.
Christopher Luxford strange no mention of this fact at all during the video
Almost all forgot Austro-Hungarian monarhy, is far more important(regarding history) than yugoslavia or czechslovakia, in this subject.
David Pusnik UES AUSTRIA HUNGARY SO IMPORTANT!
Do Prussia and Russia.
Nice Video, here are some helpful facts:
In old slavic, "slovo" means something similair to "word" in english.
Some modern slovenian words still carry this in them, like "slovnica" (grammar), "nasloviti" (to address), and "posloviti" (to say "goodbye").
To ancient slavs, "slovani" were people of the same "word" or language, if you will. People who speak (in an understandable way), etc.
That is also why, we call the germans, who are neighbours to most slavs: "nemci", because "nem" means being unable to speak comprehensively.
In old latin, slavic people were called "sclaveni", which is a latinized version of "slovani". The word "slave" probably comes from "sclaveni"..
When the slavic tribes became too big to not get noticed (~550AD+), there were already established empires and barbarians around, so.. yea.
I come from Slovenia, but also have distant roots from south Germany and Northern Italy (with surnames Schneller & Papa respectively).
Europe has a tight culture, where everything is interconnected in some way, the further you go back.. It feels good to know your roots,
but dont let them define your future.
Peace & pozdravljeni bratje in sestre!
Slovakia and Slovenia also have similar flags.
No
In Slovak and Czech, the names are even more similar - Slovensko and Slovinsko. That's a single vowel of difference.
forgive me for saying this.... but in the material you go around the point. Well, foreigners who confuse those countries are just ignorants, I guess. More intriguing thing for me would be the fact that both in Slovak and Slovene those names are so similar: names of one's own language, nation/country and the names of the other. Compare on wikipedia.
I'm not sure if I've put it right what I mean ;)
Slovens are south slavic and Slovaks are west slavic..but Slovakia is eastern than Slovenia..mind boggling..boom :O :D
Dragan Bozilov it is just some linguistic denomination, they are always dividing to subgroups. It is interesting that south-Slovenian dialect sounds similar to Russian language. So yes, this are pretty much one peoples when u don't use offical language dictionarries and alphabets
Slovenia and Slovakia are both part of western christendom in central Europe and predominately roman catholic nations, thats whats most important
@@mattbarbarich3295 That's not important.
most of this "science" isconfusion of German historians.They have homework how to claim about nonhistorical Slavic tribes in Europe. And whois first on menu? Czech, Slovak, Slovene and Poland. "Drang nach Osten" is still in action. With sword, culture or money. Neveerending story.
Fact: names of those two contries sound even more similar in czech: slovensko, slovinsko, slovensko is slovakia and slovinsko is slovenia, difference is just that e/i
But have you ever heard about some Czech who confused that? That will not happen, E and I are absolutely different sounds in slavic languages.
Im slovak🇸🇰 and we have actually nothing with slovenia🇸🇮
Tomís garýk masarýk xddd
Šech Republic
Quaronn CZ nie
@@IjeskrewRBMC Ano, říká to takhle blbě ve videu
Quaronn CZ okej
Šek Repablik :D
In Slovak the words for both Slovenia and Slovakia are literally 1 letter apart. Slovakia is 'Slovensko' and Slovenia is 'Slovinsko' , but in Slovenian it's 'Slovenija' for Slovenia and 'Slovaška' for Slovakia, which is even funnier because 'vážka' means dragonfly in Slovak.
As Slovenian (I am from Slovenia), if someone asks what language we speak,, we say "slovensko" lol. Apparently we have same word for when we are asked. We never say Slovinsko. Maybe that means "slovensko" (Slovene) = "slovinsko" (Slovak).
It isn`t dragonfly. -ška is just sufix for state name - Hrvaška, Češka, Norveška etc.
Thank you for making a normal video that is not filled with annoying memes every minute, which is getting popular for some fucking reason.
The word "slověninъ" was pronunced nicely, but for example "Tomáš Garrique Masaryk" was horrible. Thank you for your time!
My slovenian friends tell me that bosnians,serbs,macedonians,albanians etc are all the same to them. They are all Čefurji as far as he's concerned. And he means it. Then I tell him well then Slovakia and Slovenia are the same to me. At that point he goes all out to tell me how there is a huge difference between the two. Mind fuck.
When you say "two things are same to me", it can mean multiple things. My bet is your Slovenian friend means "those guys are all assholes, Croat, Serbian, Bosnian, they are all the same, I don´t give a fuck", while you saying how Slovakia and Slovenia is the same means "I don´t know anything about you and I have no idea who you are".
Filip Batora They are being ignorant without knowing it but when someone gives them a little bit of their own medicine then they don't like it.
armin38822 It has nothing to do with ignorance, if you really think Slovenes think Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks, Albanians and so on are the same, you couldn´t be more wrong. My guess is you are not from Slavic country, because if you were, you would know we know other Slavs. I know there are Czechs, Moravians and Silesians in Czech Republic and they all have different culture, but Cthulhu help me if I won´t always see them all as Czechs and hate them with passion during ice hockey championship.
I'm a Bosnian who was born and rasied in Slovenia and I've expirenced both cultures from close. So I know what's going on. Most of them see everybody from those countries as garbage while they bend down for the EU union and everybody that lives geographicly above them.
Čefurji is a denigrating label for people who immigrated to Slovenia from other parts of Yugoslavia and speak the same language. Slovenians and Slovaks don't speak the same language. Shiptars also don't speak the same language, although they are also labeled as chefurs sometimes.
3:45 It's not at all how you pronounce "Slovenec". The letters are read as is. And c is never pronounced as "k", but as c in the word "century".
Isn't C pronounced as Ts?
in english term, yes, it is pronounced as ts, but as slav, we pronounce it as c :D
Oliver Daubner "English term"? More like general term.
The C from Century isn't pronounced as a ts, but rather as s. His example wasn't good, that's what I meant.
ah ok
YakuzYah #staʟe_memes According to the narrator we call ourselves Slovenyaki... Like a species of yaks 😂 😂.. Well we are mountain nation 😂 😂
You should explain why Slovakia in Slovak is "Slovensko"
Lets just unite the countries as Slovania
or slovekia
TheFancyRoman yeah... about that, what's with Slavonia in Croatia 😂😂
TheFancyRoman I believe there is a place called 'Slovania' somewhere in former Yugoslavia
Gavin Herrera yeah it is, in Croatia but Slavonia (we say Slavonija) not Slovania
Let's unite all Slavic countries as (Vse) Slavia. :D
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk - ˈtomaːʃ ˈɡarɪk ˈmasarɪk
It was probably mentioned here already, but I want to say something... the country names of Slovakia and Slovenia have their origin in the way the people called themselves, which comes from "Slavs". In the history of the Slovak people men called themselves "Sloven" and women "Slovenka". In Slovenia it is "Slovenec" and "Slovenka". The difference here is solely linguistical. Because of their similar Slavic languages both called themselves the same way, while the endings differed because of the grammatical structures used. We can now still see it in the way women in both countries are called "Slovenka". At some point in history men in Slovakia started to call themselves "Slovak" instead of "Sloven" while the name for women stayed the same. (Apparently nobody really knows why.) Also the Slovak country name "SLOVENsko" shows the original name. The similarity in the English language is there because the country names where coined from the way people (men) call themselves in both countries. The Slovens called their country "Slovenija" (name of the people), while they named "Slovakia" "Slovaska" (also from the name Slovak, just like in Engish). The Slovaks called Slovenia "Slovinsko" and I honestly think this turn was just made because they could not call both countries "Slovensko", so they made it "Slovensko"(Slovakia) and "Slovinsko"(Slovenia).
*You're wasting time explaining the history but you haven't at all explained the origins and the etymology of the word.*
No offense but this video is a big waste of time. A simple google search can answer this question in 5 seconds.
You're wasting your time writing a paragraph about how you feel about a guy talking about two countries and their similarities
Did you watch the same video as others?
I agree. I was expecting to see the language(ic) origins of Slovakia and Slovenia. In fact, in Slovakia they call their country "Slovenska/Slovensko" which is similiar to the word "Slovenia." Though I'm neither Slovakian or Slovenian, so I might be wrong
@@internetcivilian1354 "Slovenska/Slovensko" is Slovenia the Slovaks call their country "Slovaška"
U NEED PROZAC,.
The word 'Slovenec' was first used in the 19th century?
Where' d u get that from, we had our first monuments written in our language around the year 1000 and our first 2 books in the 16th!
Lol ur right that statement that he made was so wrong lmao
@@cubixman9676 Also our charman of Academia of science and art means the same. He is professor of history but he didn`t read first two printed Slovenian books. lol
Greetings from Slovakia! :D Nice vid, was funny to hear you pronounce some names.
Whats the background song? :O Sounds really relaxing old-times
Roman Minárik youtuber CGP Grey has this exact song in his geography vids, i wonder if its a coincidence..