![]() ![]() Linguistic distance is the name for the concept of calculating a measurement for how different languages are from one another. It exists in differing degrees among many related or geographically proximate languages of the world, often in the context of a dialect continuum. When it is relatively symmetric, it is characterized as "mutual". Intelligibility between languages can be asymmetric, with speakers of one understanding more of the other than speakers of the other understanding the first. ![]() It is sometimes used as an important criterion for distinguishing languages from dialects, although sociolinguistic factors are often also used. In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. There is a high level of mutual intelligibility between the closely related West Slavic languages Czech and Slovak (the Czech–Slovak languages). Statue of the first Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (whose mother was Czech and father Slovak) with Czech flag on the left and Slovak flag on the right. ![]()
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