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  • Опубликовано: 4 фев 2017
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  • @NameExplain
    @NameExplain  7 лет назад +258

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  • @bezbotek
    @bezbotek 6 лет назад +519

    "Slovenka" in Slovak = Slovak woman
    "Slovenka" in Slovene =Slovene woman

    • @komezajebadadoemvam1130
      @komezajebadadoemvam1130 5 лет назад +39

      Very nice. I am Serbian... in Serbian language word Slovenka means Slovene and Slavic women... Serbian word for Slovak women is Slovakinja.

    • @matthew1776-t1c
      @matthew1776-t1c 5 лет назад +2

      Its slovenian not slovene

    • @komezajebadadoemvam1130
      @komezajebadadoemvam1130 5 лет назад +5

      Why Slovenian, why not Slovene?

    • @matthew1776-t1c
      @matthew1776-t1c 5 лет назад +3

      @@komezajebadadoemvam1130 slovene sound too weird for me

    • @Walllllo
      @Walllllo 5 лет назад +14

      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

  • @miroslavkmetic3957
    @miroslavkmetic3957 6 лет назад +1090

    Naši bratje Slovaki, pozdrav iz Slovenije.
    Naši bratia Slováci, pozdrav zo Slovinska.
    Our brothers Slovaks, greetings from Slovenia.

    • @DacLMK
      @DacLMK 6 лет назад +26

      Поздрав од Македонија до сите Словени.

    • @Martinko_Pcik
      @Martinko_Pcik 6 лет назад +58

      "zo Slovinska" ;) Zdravím.

    • @olgaristemovich9219
      @olgaristemovich9219 6 лет назад +43

      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.

    • @samuelis6665
      @samuelis6665 6 лет назад +2

      Thanks

    • @soicymemes2223
      @soicymemes2223 6 лет назад

      thiefs

  • @juanxd6411
    @juanxd6411 6 лет назад +372

    When you said "Yugoslavia" the subtitles said "Jesus loves you" LOL

    • @raufowaty2
      @raufowaty2 3 года назад +11

      For me it says "Yogeshwara"

    • @kakashisensei1378
      @kakashisensei1378 3 года назад +4

      My one says Yugaslavia ?

    • @raufowaty2
      @raufowaty2 3 года назад +3

      @@kakashisensei1378 Yea, mine says too, the second time he said it.

    • @idkbruh4059
      @idkbruh4059 3 года назад +4

      Mine too it syas on the second time he says Yugoslavia Jesus loves you

    • @petros_adamopoulos
      @petros_adamopoulos 3 года назад

      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.

  • @slovakslovenslovenecsloven3185
    @slovakslovenslovenecsloven3185 6 лет назад +406

    My countries, my blood, my father is Slovenian and my mother is Slovak, well my mother is Slovenka in every case, greetings from Hungary. 💕

    • @igoremersic2005
      @igoremersic2005 5 лет назад +5

      How do you say Slovenec (your dad) po Slovaško?

    • @peetboy
      @peetboy 5 лет назад +10

      Almost the same but instead 'e' we use 'i' - Slovinec.

    • @peetboy
      @peetboy 5 лет назад +1

      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

    • @Adomavo
      @Adomavo 5 лет назад +1

      Slovak... we call them like that

    • @ThePhobosAnomally
      @ThePhobosAnomally 5 лет назад +1

      Are you your dad's otrok?

  • @retardosaurusrex360
    @retardosaurusrex360 7 лет назад +1016

    *you called Kosovo a country and said Macedonia*
    rip comment section

    • @DacLMK
      @DacLMK 7 лет назад +72

      And brace yourself for the butthurt Greeks (btw I'm from Macedonia)

    • @DJLukk4
      @DJLukk4 7 лет назад +10

      +chubby kitty gaming pa da bas je beskorisna, da su tebi proterali i pobili pola porodice pitao bih te da li je "pointless"

    • @mudkipman1
      @mudkipman1 7 лет назад +7

      no one outside of east Europe cares about that. here in the US we got bigger problems than that petty crap

    • @ptolemaios220687
      @ptolemaios220687 7 лет назад

      no you are not ..you are fron Vardaska
      states original name YUGOSLAV!!

    • @ElPassso
      @ElPassso 7 лет назад +22

      yeah, you bomb and then you dont care... great attitude..

  • @nomercyformayhem4774
    @nomercyformayhem4774 7 лет назад +1261

    ouh ,mentioning both Kosovo and Macedonia , that's a risky move :D

    • @anatomyotset
      @anatomyotset 7 лет назад +132

      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.

    • @nomercyformayhem4774
      @nomercyformayhem4774 7 лет назад +178

      KoLmk _ I think you mean the "United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland"

    • @anatomyotset
      @anatomyotset 7 лет назад +43

      +Nyancat7 Exactly. See you respect the International law :D

    • @anatomyotset
      @anatomyotset 7 лет назад +16

      +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. :)

    • @DanMan5000
      @DanMan5000 7 лет назад +28

      KoLmk _ It de-facto is, just like Taiwan

  • @FishikK
    @FishikK 5 лет назад +297

    Slovenian language: Slovenščina
    Slovak language: Slovenčina
    Now that's what you call confusing.

    • @cubixman9676
      @cubixman9676 4 года назад +9

      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).

    • @dizzneyy_4818
      @dizzneyy_4818 4 года назад +3

      @@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. 😂

    • @sakom0793
      @sakom0793 4 года назад +3

      @@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.

    • @Phoenix_The_HeroHater
      @Phoenix_The_HeroHater 4 года назад

      Oop-

    • @AandKify
      @AandKify 4 года назад +4

      @@sakom0793 tiahni

  • @lukasbelan2109
    @lukasbelan2109 6 лет назад +236

    Actualy the problem is that we (slavs) love ourselves (other slavs) but we can't stand being together in one cointry xD

    • @SISchminka
      @SISchminka 5 лет назад +3

      Dr. Anton Perdih - Iskanje slovenske samobitnosti: Izvor Slovencev in drugih Evropejcev: ruclips.net/video/7XsW8pZyw6g/видео.html
      Izvor Slovencev in drugih Evropejcev - Dr. Anton Perdih - 15.11.2016 - Knjižnica Duplek: ruclips.net/video/l8-dXqUo7pk/видео.html
      Iskanje slovenske samobitnosti: Smo Slovenci staroselci ali prišleki? - Dr. Duša Krnel Umek: ruclips.net/video/zlqrbmNHz4A/видео.html
      Dr. Cyril A. Hromnik: ruclips.net/video/rPXeftz2fKE/видео.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: ruclips.net/video/4CiBBi8bMm4/видео.html
      Od kod Slovenci? - G. Marjan Moškon: ruclips.net/video/-viLZDVJEmk/видео.html

    • @Aya33-xX
      @Aya33-xX 4 года назад +1

      SISchminka Hvala za povezave. Poznam knjigo g. Perdiha, Venelina pa ne...upam, da se da kje kaj dobit o njem.

    • @sakom0793
      @sakom0793 4 года назад +10

      I'm slav and I don't like Russians too much but ok.

    • @anuarm5f90
      @anuarm5f90 4 года назад +4

      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.

    • @pokot4776
      @pokot4776 3 года назад

      @@sakom0793 а украинцы нравятся?

  • @Kintabl
    @Kintabl 7 лет назад +225

    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.

    • @alekshukhevych2644
      @alekshukhevych2644 6 лет назад

      That is not true!

    • @violalackova7242
      @violalackova7242 6 лет назад +14

      @@alekshukhevych2644 IT is

    • @alekshukhevych2644
      @alekshukhevych2644 6 лет назад +13

      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.

    • @klemenator
      @klemenator 5 лет назад +1

      @@TadeSLO To je taki bullshit. Niti ena teroija ne obstaja da so slovani živeli po celi evropi.

    • @jozebutinar44
      @jozebutinar44 5 лет назад

      Misogynist kdo je to reku ti?niso bili slovani ampak veneti

  • @petermerse7689
    @petermerse7689 7 лет назад +334

    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.

    • @profrezer7164
      @profrezer7164 7 лет назад +6

      This also works as a good TL;DW.

    • @Nerva27
      @Nerva27 7 лет назад +3

      Peter Merše heyy I kinda wrote the same thing :D I guess we've been reading the same books haha

    • @AfterlifeAll
      @AfterlifeAll 7 лет назад +33

      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

    • @Nerva27
      @Nerva27 7 лет назад +6

      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.

    • @Nerva27
      @Nerva27 7 лет назад +9

      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 :)?

  • @martinstrausz5440
    @martinstrausz5440 6 лет назад +88

    I hate when i am on my holiday and somebody ask me: where you from? me: Slovakia. Random guy: aaah... Slovenia. Me:no, slovakia.

    • @tfabian2846
      @tfabian2846 5 лет назад +13

      Seriously? I say my family's heritage is from Slovenia and have to correct everyone who automatically assumes Slovakia.

    • @nji7772
      @nji7772 4 года назад

      truth

    • @xThatxGuy
      @xThatxGuy 4 года назад +4

      People know Slovakia more than Slovenia, I think

    • @kristiangeorgiev5915
      @kristiangeorgiev5915 3 года назад +9

      Random guy: Ohh so Russia right? Me: For fuck sake....

    • @radovan511
      @radovan511 3 года назад +1

      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..

  • @filip3312
    @filip3312 5 лет назад +34

    Hello Slovenia 🇸🇮 people. Greetings from Slovakia🇸🇰 and hello Czech 🇨🇿 people too.

  • @PkerNoobass
    @PkerNoobass 7 лет назад +481

    'Croats' is pronounced 'Crow-ats' rather than 'Crotes'

    • @NameExplain
      @NameExplain  7 лет назад +34

      Of course it is, I'm so bad at this haha, cheers for the comment.

    • @n.bastians8633
      @n.bastians8633 7 лет назад +9

      Polish uses dż. Serbocroatian uses đ. Bulgarian uses dj.

    • @stefangrubesic2708
      @stefangrubesic2708 7 лет назад +3

      Enver Hoxha dž or đ in croatian language

    • @futurez14
      @futurez14 7 лет назад +2

      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.

    • @ColonelTheSlav
      @ColonelTheSlav 7 лет назад +7

      South slavic languages have soft spoken and hard spoken "j" that's written as "đ" and "dž" respectively.

  • @itareadiyo6211
    @itareadiyo6211 7 лет назад +97

    the dislikers are serbs who heard the word "Kosovo"

    • @gabyrojas9413
      @gabyrojas9413 5 лет назад +29

      The other dislikes were Greeks who heard the word “Macedonia”

    • @MrVialpando
      @MrVialpando 3 года назад +2

      Kosovo is Kosovo and not Serbia.
      Greetings from Croatia :)

    • @meridian8553
      @meridian8553 3 года назад +7

      @@MrVialpando KOSOVO je SRBSKO! Pozdravujem zo Slovenska.

    • @noname-pk6ez
      @noname-pk6ez 3 года назад +5

      @@MrVialpando kosovo JE serbija...
      Pozz Iz slovenije

    • @canalenumero1912
      @canalenumero1912 3 года назад

      Serbia should return in Romania, as It was in the past

  • @dissolvedeepzey3226
    @dissolvedeepzey3226 7 лет назад +71

    Who from Slovakia 🇸🇰
    Ahoj!

  • @MaxwellTornado
    @MaxwellTornado 7 лет назад +61

    Maybe... MAYBE, it's because they're both Slavic. Hmm? *HMM?!* Seriously, some of these educational channels make videos so pointless it hurts.

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 3 года назад

      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.

    • @MaxwellTornado
      @MaxwellTornado 3 года назад +1

      @@bojanstare8667 Yeah, I'm Hungarian, I know.

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 3 года назад

      @@MaxwellTornado And? If e are normal people is not problem at all.

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 3 года назад

      @@MaxwellTornado What it was it is history. It is just matter of today and future.

  • @mate6522
    @mate6522 7 лет назад +61

    To make this shit more intresting Croatia has a region which is called Slavonia.

    • @nicolasbehak6815
      @nicolasbehak6815 5 лет назад +1

      Yes my grandmother was born there and I'm from uruguay, pozdrav

    • @CrazyLeiFeng
      @CrazyLeiFeng 5 лет назад +5

      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.

    • @erroryt7229
      @erroryt7229 5 лет назад

      @@CrazyLeiFeng oof

    • @svaral33
      @svaral33 5 лет назад +8

      Mate the mess can’t be complete without mentioning SLOVÁCKO, region in eastern Moravia/Czech rep. :)

    • @SloveintzWend
      @SloveintzWend 5 лет назад +2

      To make shit more interesting Slavonia was once called Slovenje by Slavonians and Slavonians ain't Croats.

  • @ela1058
    @ela1058 6 лет назад +142

    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?? 😀

    • @t_kanukova
      @t_kanukova 6 лет назад +1

      eee Jaaaaaaaaa 😂😂😂

    • @ela1058
      @ela1058 6 лет назад +1

      @@t_kanukova ahoooj 😂😭

    • @zorbatko
      @zorbatko 5 лет назад

      Noo ne ze Slovenska ale z Čech!

    • @noro5475
      @noro5475 5 лет назад +2

      Ja 🙋🇸🇰

    • @DawidGarbacz
      @DawidGarbacz 5 лет назад +1

      Ja nie

  • @MultiSciGeek
    @MultiSciGeek 6 лет назад +153

    *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.

    • @williammalone9734
      @williammalone9734 6 лет назад +18

      You're wasting your time writing a paragraph about how you feel about a guy talking about two countries and their similarities

    • @johntheguy214
      @johntheguy214 6 лет назад +8

      Did you watch the same video as others?

    • @internetcivilian1354
      @internetcivilian1354 5 лет назад

      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

    • @CraftingWithKlif
      @CraftingWithKlif 5 лет назад

      @@internetcivilian1354 "Slovenska/Slovensko" is Slovenia the Slovaks call their country "Slovaška"

    • @margaretmurphy1546
      @margaretmurphy1546 5 лет назад

      U NEED PROZAC,.

  • @juliep.7494
    @juliep.7494 7 лет назад +307

    I like how you mispronounce half the countries' names

    • @Haaklong
      @Haaklong 7 лет назад +60

      He's called "Name Explain" not "Name pronounce".

    • @DZR3WIND
      @DZR3WIND 7 лет назад +12

      Its still a fail, none the less. lol.

    • @shinybling88
      @shinybling88 7 лет назад +17

      at least he's trying... your English isn't far from a fail either.

    • @bletwort2920
      @bletwort2920 7 лет назад +34

      English speakers are renowned the world over for butchering every single foreign word without failing.

    • @brkatimachor
      @brkatimachor 7 лет назад +61

      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).

  • @aphrenia
    @aphrenia 7 лет назад +53

    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.

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 3 года назад +1

      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.

    • @jakubondrus6064
      @jakubondrus6064 2 года назад +1

      @@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

  • @christianwestling2019
    @christianwestling2019 7 лет назад +4

    To make things even trickier, there is a region in Croatia called Slavonia (The eastern tip of the upper arm).

  • @AndiKravljaca
    @AndiKravljaca 7 лет назад +37

    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

    • @daruszero
      @daruszero 6 лет назад +5

      We were all the same ethnic group called Sloveni with the same language but different dialects.

    • @socalchago
      @socalchago 6 лет назад +3

      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.

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 3 года назад

      @@daruszero Yes? Same as Kingdom Yugoslavia with united Serbs tribe?

  • @zarbon4418
    @zarbon4418 7 лет назад +124

    I have a question. Why country Georgia and the state Georgia are called the same?

    • @shinydewott
      @shinydewott 7 лет назад +6

      And the island

    • @obsessivelyoli
      @obsessivelyoli 7 лет назад +27

      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.

    • @shinydewott
      @shinydewott 7 лет назад +2

      Gavin Herrera and the island?

    • @kire271MK
      @kire271MK 7 лет назад +34

      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.

    • @zarbon4418
      @zarbon4418 7 лет назад

      Kirca I know, I live there

  • @jandurinik4654
    @jandurinik4654 7 лет назад +82

    Completely off topic video. Explaining etymological connection that was formed in middle ages by recent history that has nothing to do with it...

    • @martinsmolik2449
      @martinsmolik2449 6 лет назад

      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.

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 3 года назад +2

      @@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?

    • @jozefgarab
      @jozefgarab 2 года назад

      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.

  • @almamater489
    @almamater489 7 лет назад +158

    Kosovo isn't officially a country

    • @Wolverine-ky9gk
      @Wolverine-ky9gk 6 лет назад +8

      its a disputed territory, which was partially recognized not enough to be a full country

    • @IjeskrewRBMC
      @IjeskrewRBMC 6 лет назад +2

      Snake Kosovo is Albania pretty much but for some reason they took Serbias land

    • @hehexd3605
      @hehexd3605 6 лет назад +2

      Cry un recognize kosovo kosovo is albanian

    • @bo2ic172
      @bo2ic172 6 лет назад +5

      is serbia

    • @mihailoradovanovic7283
      @mihailoradovanovic7283 6 лет назад +15

      Kosovo je Srbija

  • @jozefkostelansky
    @jozefkostelansky 3 года назад +14

    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... 😀

  • @Gallalad1
    @Gallalad1 7 лет назад +437

    *sees you've called Kosovo a country*
    Oh man this is gonna be good, let's see how the Serbians take this one

    • @TheUglyGnome
      @TheUglyGnome 7 лет назад +69

      And using name 'Macedonia' without that ridiculous prefix.
      Waiting for Greek invasion in comment section.

    • @wirek8757
      @wirek8757 7 лет назад +5

      Wait for Kosovian and Macedonian peoples invasion under comments from Greek and Serbians :D.

    • @wirek8757
      @wirek8757 7 лет назад +2

      Russian Hackers was attack us, America help us and we do World War III. :D

    • @TheUglyGnome
      @TheUglyGnome 7 лет назад +20

      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.

    • @der_Alptraum
      @der_Alptraum 7 лет назад +3

      But it's a country now. Serbians should get over it already.

  • @billysanpidro
    @billysanpidro 7 лет назад +257

    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.

    • @maymunity7942
      @maymunity7942 7 лет назад +41

      #AlternativeFacts

    • @HesseJamez
      @HesseJamez 7 лет назад +8

      LOL...so the republic was named after a goal keeper.

    • @miaiscoming1153
      @miaiscoming1153 7 лет назад +5

      lol :D no bro... i'm from Slovakia, we have hockey player ''Slovák'' and Slovakia isn't named from Martin Slovák :D

    • @kristinakedrova7119
      @kristinakedrova7119 7 лет назад

      Sosuke Sagara omg😂😂😂

    • @jakubolah7117
      @jakubolah7117 7 лет назад

      Mia is coming ktorý lol :D

  • @sboochek
    @sboochek 7 лет назад +54

    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"

    • @jurijsoklic5026
      @jurijsoklic5026 6 лет назад +28

      In Slovenia the language is "slovenščina".If somebody ask me how I speak I say "slovensko".

    • @hernimaniak2379
      @hernimaniak2379 6 лет назад +4

      Im from slovakia i know that :P

    • @igoremersic2005
      @igoremersic2005 5 лет назад +13

      It is actually slovenščina,

    • @rower1698
      @rower1698 5 лет назад +5

      FUNFACT 3: Got them all wrong bud

    • @Pidalin
      @Pidalin 4 года назад +9

      in Czech it's slovinština and slovenština, but slovaks hate that because ština means piss in slovak language :-D

  • @Milannove
    @Milannove 7 лет назад +15

    Slovenians are good people:) greetings from Slovakia

  • @alwinpriven2400
    @alwinpriven2400 7 лет назад +50

    I never get them confused. Weird English people

    • @awesomemantm2000
      @awesomemantm2000 7 лет назад +12

      they really don't even sound similar. people are just ignorant.

    • @Bike_Lion
      @Bike_Lion 7 лет назад +3

      @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.

    • @awesomemantm2000
      @awesomemantm2000 7 лет назад +1

      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.

    • @simonk.4338
      @simonk.4338 7 лет назад +4

      In slovene, Slovenia is Slovenija and Slovakia is Slovaška (Slovashka)

    • @weedor3861
      @weedor3861 7 лет назад +1

      nobody cares

  • @johnjet98
    @johnjet98 7 лет назад +180

    How about Turkey (country) and turkey (bird).

    • @soupy4099
      @soupy4099 7 лет назад +19

      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.

    • @Ceteme8
      @Ceteme8 7 лет назад +3

      Now this is an important question.

    • @sttthr
      @sttthr 7 лет назад +6

      English associates the bird with Turkey, while most other languages associate it with India. I think in Turkish it's actually called a "hindi".

    • @rockwitharms7455
      @rockwitharms7455 7 лет назад

      Tadeusz Kantor Turkey in Finnish is kalkkuna. Makes no sense

    • @eruyommo
      @eruyommo 7 лет назад

      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.

  • @Martinko_Pcik
    @Martinko_Pcik 3 года назад +3

    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.

  • @AndrisMV
    @AndrisMV 5 лет назад +44

    Both lovely nations. Greetings from your neighbour Hungary from a Hungarian :)

    • @mrzajac1
      @mrzajac1 4 года назад +18

      OMG an actual Hungarian that accepts Slovakia.

    • @Bart42000
      @Bart42000 3 года назад +13

      Finally. A Hungarian that doesnt hate us for no reason 🇸🇰🇭🇺

    • @LaszloVondracsek
      @LaszloVondracsek 3 года назад +2

      @@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.

    • @mybos8575
      @mybos8575 3 года назад +1

      @@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.

  • @CaelosCZ
    @CaelosCZ 7 лет назад +109

    Šekoslovakia, Šek Republic, sice mi asi prd rozumíš, ale říkáš to fakt srandovně :-D

    • @mantaholy6845
      @mantaholy6845 5 лет назад

      CaelosCZ tak uz som si zvikol 😂

    • @siro6375
      @siro6375 5 лет назад

      Jj

    • @daca8395
      @daca8395 5 лет назад +4

      And Šeks...

    • @Pidalin
      @Pidalin 4 года назад +1

      taky tam řiká naše normální CH i když se to v angličtině vyslovuje s K :-D

    • @alzbetanagyova4015
      @alzbetanagyova4015 4 года назад

      Jj

  • @jojowiewerjojo
    @jojowiewerjojo 7 лет назад +15

    AS a Slovene I can detest that this has been poorly researched

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 3 года назад +1

      As everything when is going for small Slavs countries.

  •  7 лет назад +8

    Well, Primož Trubar wrote Slouenci (Slovenci in modern Slovenien) in 1550... so what is the role of 20th 's century Jugoslavija in it?

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 3 года назад +1

      He has also payed for translation and print of first croatian printed book.

    • @MD-nr6ik
      @MD-nr6ik 3 года назад

      Ne morem verjet kje te zagledam :) Včasih sodelavca na gener..
      Lp

    • @MD-nr6ik
      @MD-nr6ik 3 года назад

      @@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.

  • @martinriggs2.095
    @martinriggs2.095 5 лет назад +13

    Anyone else from Slovenia🇸🇮

    • @cubixman9676
      @cubixman9676 4 года назад +2

      Yep i am! Ik im 1 year late but here i am. A fellow Slovenian crawling throught the comments searching for a fellow Slovenian!

    • @martinriggs2.095
      @martinriggs2.095 4 года назад

      @@cubixman9676 žiujo haha😊

  • @CanaryMapping
    @CanaryMapping 7 лет назад +119

    0:37 kosovo and montenegro didn't break up from yugoslavia, montenegro broke up from serbia & montenegro and kosovo from serbia learn history ffs.

    • @kostam.1113
      @kostam.1113 7 лет назад +31

      Also Kosovo is disputed territory just like Abkhazia, South Ossetia and many other similar states.

    • @CanaryMapping
      @CanaryMapping 7 лет назад +13

      Kosta M. I know, but it didn't/isn't broke/breaking appart form yugoslavia

    • @kostam.1113
      @kostam.1113 7 лет назад +3

      Canary Mapping Yup.

    • @kostam.1113
      @kostam.1113 7 лет назад +10

      Andi Rain LoL, so much disinformation in one post.

    • @Warpwaffel
      @Warpwaffel 7 лет назад +3

      You could call Montenegro breaking off Serbia&Montenegro and Kosovo breaking off Serbia the continuation of Yugoslavia breaking up. Just saying.

  • @TheArtistOfKuroo
    @TheArtistOfKuroo 7 лет назад +57

    I'm surprised you didn't mention that both Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia both formed in the breakup of Austria-Hungary.

    • @overdozze1226
      @overdozze1226 6 лет назад +1

      I am depressed now

    • @imperatorantonius222
      @imperatorantonius222 6 лет назад +2

      Except for Serbia and FYRM thry were independent kingdoms

    • @daruszero
      @daruszero 6 лет назад

      Those were two artificial countries.

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 3 года назад +1

      @@imperatorantonius222 Montenegro was kingdom, not FYRM.

  • @nadjacobal
    @nadjacobal 7 лет назад +35

    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.

    • @alekshukhevych2644
      @alekshukhevych2644 6 лет назад +2

      May I correct you, Ukrainians also have singular and dual plural!

    • @BoxStudioExecutive
      @BoxStudioExecutive 6 лет назад

      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.

    • @ethiop_frum
      @ethiop_frum 6 лет назад +3

      And today in Finland have another name of Russian - "vendele"!!!

    • @bratbratranec
      @bratbratranec 5 лет назад +1

      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

    • @milansrnka339
      @milansrnka339 5 лет назад +1

      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

  • @najlepsiclovek1252
    @najlepsiclovek1252 6 лет назад +26

    Hi guys, im from slovakia :) slovakia is slavic state and slovenia too :) its from history all

    • @lastnamewhat20
      @lastnamewhat20 5 лет назад +1

      I thought Slovenia was Balkan.. Oh okay

    • @filip3312
      @filip3312 5 лет назад

      Slovakia is a Slovan state not Slavic state because we are Slovans I am from Slovakia 🇸🇰 to.

    • @SISchminka
      @SISchminka 5 лет назад +1

      Dr. Anton Perdih - Iskanje slovenske samobitnosti: Izvor Slovencev in drugih Evropejcev: ruclips.net/video/7XsW8pZyw6g/видео.html
      Izvor Slovencev in drugih Evropejcev - Dr. Anton Perdih - 15.11.2016 - Knjižnica Duplek: ruclips.net/video/l8-dXqUo7pk/видео.html
      Iskanje slovenske samobitnosti: Smo Slovenci staroselci ali prišleki? - Dr. Duša Krnel Umek: ruclips.net/video/zlqrbmNHz4A/видео.html
      Dr. Cyril A. Hromnik: ruclips.net/video/rPXeftz2fKE/видео.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: ruclips.net/video/4CiBBi8bMm4/видео.html
      Od kod Slovenci? - G. Marjan Moškon: ruclips.net/video/-viLZDVJEmk/видео.html

    • @MissSlovakia2
      @MissSlovakia2 5 лет назад +4

      @@filip3312 We are Slavs, not Slovans. "Slovan" is a slovak translation of the word "slav." So, for English speaking people we are slavs 😊

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 3 года назад +1

      @@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.

  • @adityac3239
    @adityac3239 7 лет назад +55

    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

    • @NameExplain
      @NameExplain  7 лет назад +20

      +Aditya C You don't know how many times I drew the wrong flag for the wrong country when I was making this video.

    • @KohuGaly
      @KohuGaly 7 лет назад +2

      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

    • @hanagreg
      @hanagreg 7 лет назад

      what the hell is ''slavic tricolor''

    • @adityac3239
      @adityac3239 7 лет назад +9

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Slavic_colors

    • @hanagreg
      @hanagreg 7 лет назад

      Aditya C Interesting. I'm surprised because ''slavic tricolor'' suggests that all Slavic countries would be included.

  • @johnnyscifi
    @johnnyscifi 7 лет назад +16

    Cuz they're both Slav countries?

  • @Epicmikey9
    @Epicmikey9 5 лет назад +4

    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.

  • @kristijanveljaca1687
    @kristijanveljaca1687 6 лет назад +11

    2:45 It's not "JÜG" it's "JUG"
    We have East - Istok, West - Zapad, North - Sjever and South - Jug

    • @robertjug8515
      @robertjug8515 3 года назад

      vzhod, zahod and sever may be different, but there is only one Jug

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 3 года назад

      @@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.

  • @mttlgh
    @mttlgh 7 лет назад +34

    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.

    • @QuinlanLJ
      @QuinlanLJ 6 лет назад +3

      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

    • @xiuhwho
      @xiuhwho 2 года назад +3

      @@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
      @ukilectric Год назад

      "Slovenski" is Serbo-Crotaian for "slovenian", but "slovenčina" is "slovenian" in Slovenian. :)

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 Год назад +1

      @@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.

  • @JustSomeJeff01
    @JustSomeJeff01 7 лет назад +134

    Czech republic is now called Czechia. *in English*

    • @mithra1950
      @mithra1950 7 лет назад +17

      Czechia is the shortening like "The French Republic"

    • @conorwilson1382
      @conorwilson1382 7 лет назад +13

      Moist Towelette 37 i still call it the czech republic

    • @ryanfinn5544
      @ryanfinn5544 7 лет назад +15

      GenMagus nope it's the new name

    • @kokos742
      @kokos742 7 лет назад +17

      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

    • @DanMan5000
      @DanMan5000 7 лет назад +18

      Moist Towelette 37 The official name is Czech Republic the short name is Czechia

  • @Veliunas
    @Veliunas 7 лет назад +3

    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 ...)

  • @lkrnpk
    @lkrnpk 5 лет назад +4

    3:49, segment about Slovenia, showing old coins of the Republic of Latvia

    • @lkrnpk
      @lkrnpk 4 года назад

      @NSA What are you talking about? Look ar the video at the timestamp I provided , what's shown there - Latvia's "santīms", not talars...

  • @liviuvelichi6847
    @liviuvelichi6847 7 лет назад +190

    There's no such thing as Kosovo

    • @nomercyformayhem4774
      @nomercyformayhem4774 7 лет назад +23

      yes there is ,more than half of the UN members accept it.

    • @anatomyotset
      @anatomyotset 7 лет назад +28

      There is such thing as Kosovo. Its called Kosovo and Metohija and its an autonomous region of Serbia. :)

    • @nomercyformayhem4774
      @nomercyformayhem4774 7 лет назад +14

      May I ask why the independence of Kosovo bothers you and many others so much? I have never read any arguments besides nationalistic ones. Just out of curiosity

    • @anatomyotset
      @anatomyotset 7 лет назад +25

      +Nyancat7 Well in short, it has been a core of Serbian national identity, history and religion for centuries. And that situation was changed through means I have no time nor desire to explain. And now its just taken away from Serbia because America wants to exploit its vast mineral and coal deposits. And they have a military base there which is strategic. So besides national and historic reasons, gruesome injustice, there is also economic ones, minerals and coal which I mentioned and also one of the most fertile fields in whole of the Europe. So how would you feel if something that was righteously part of your country and your history for ages, just gets taken away and your whole national identity and vast economic benefits with it? But I feel bad for the Albanians, they are under American boot now and will always be for as long as they exist there. So they are far worse now than they were before even Yugoslavia broke up.

    • @severmiu9097
      @severmiu9097 7 лет назад

      Nu zău :D.

  • @Tyrhor
    @Tyrhor 7 лет назад +9

    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")

  • @lukario_cz
    @lukario_cz 6 лет назад +10

    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...

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 3 года назад +1

      Google translate is language sensitiv and doesn`t matter if you write in hieroglife.

  • @RanmaruRei
    @RanmaruRei 7 лет назад +1

    Actually, the short explanaition is pretty simple. Slav in protoslavic is словѣнинъ (slověninъ). It is derived from слово (slovo), which means «word». So, словѣнинъ means «that can speak». Foreigner, for example, was немец (nemec), which means «mute/speechless». Now, that word in Slavic languages means German (about people). In some Slavic languages словѣнинъ turned into славянинъ (slavianin). Славянинъ get Slav.
    So… I should say, «slovenec» pronounces as [slovenet͡s], btw. Cc in Slavic languages always pronounces as [t͡s]. Next…
    «Slovenec» (словенец) has typical Slavic suffix -ec (ец). For example, American in Russian американец (amerikanec).
    «Slovak» (cловак) has, on the other hand, rare suffix -ak (ак). For, example, Prusian in Russian прусак (prusak).
    That's all.

  • @dancesk8194
    @dancesk8194 7 лет назад +10

    Why is Magyarorszag called Hungary im Englischen or what is the connection between hungry and Hungary??? Greetings from Germany

    • @filipbatora7523
      @filipbatora7523 7 лет назад +2

      My bet is it is either taken from German (Ungarn) or they named Hungarians after Huns.

    • @boris75723
      @boris75723 7 лет назад +1

      Filip Batora wrong huns in 5 century are not hungarians which came in centeal europe end of 9 cent..

    • @filipbatora7523
      @filipbatora7523 7 лет назад +1

      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.

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 3 года назад

      @@boris75723 rather end of 10th century

  • @leblubblab
    @leblubblab 7 лет назад +6

    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.

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 3 года назад +1

      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.

  • @rom_en
    @rom_en 4 года назад +2

    AMERICAN : Where are you from ?
    ME : Slovakia
    AMERICAN : RUSSIA ?!

  • @patuskert9554
    @patuskert9554 6 лет назад +1

    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.

  • @2000un2000
    @2000un2000 7 лет назад +23

    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.

    • @Mino987
      @Mino987 5 лет назад +1

      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.

    • @hudy2735
      @hudy2735 5 лет назад +1

      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
      @MP-qi3hw 5 лет назад

      @@Mino987 knez Kocelj was slovenian knez 😉

    • @Mino987
      @Mino987 5 лет назад +1

      @@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

    • @VendPrekmurec
      @VendPrekmurec 5 лет назад +1

      Hudy "KoceLJ" je srbizirano ime za Kocla. Tukaj v Pomurju obstaja še nekaj priimkov Kocel.

  • @aigarsjo
    @aigarsjo 7 лет назад +5

    Just pointing it out, but the currency at 3:49 is exually an oly Latvian currency what was replaced by Eiro at January 2014.

  • @reformedcatholic457
    @reformedcatholic457 5 лет назад +8

    Slovenija je pekna, I have Slovak ancestry, both Slovakia and Slovenia are beautiful countries :) from Australia.

  • @gamesmile1440
    @gamesmile1440 7 лет назад +21

    Tomís garýk masarýk xddd

  • @buki_zvani_pera
    @buki_zvani_pera 7 лет назад +12

    The main thing you forgot to mention is that both countries call themselves (in their own languages) "Slovenska Republika"

    • @frantisekgorazd2084
      @frantisekgorazd2084 7 лет назад +4

      see in Google map:
      Slovenska Bistrica
      Slovenska Lupča
      Slovenske Konjice
      Slovenske Nove Mesto
      Slovenski Javornik
      Slovensky Grob
      ....

    • @PeterK1
      @PeterK1 6 лет назад +3

      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.

    • @matuspenkala468
      @matuspenkala468 6 лет назад +3

      Všetko je slovenské :D

    • @peterszalaj4102
      @peterszalaj4102 6 лет назад +2

      @@matuspenkala468 vsetko je slovAnske :D

    • @elceelcevet6998
      @elceelcevet6998 5 лет назад +1

      @@PeterK1 nemaju ypsilon

  • @MasterGeekMX
    @MasterGeekMX 7 лет назад +5

    Here in spanish we have a similar problem: Switzerland and Sweden are called Suiza and Suecia, in that order.

    • @ClifffSVK
      @ClifffSVK 7 лет назад +3

      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

  • @chrisrusso4761
    @chrisrusso4761 3 года назад +2

    Slovenia 🇸🇮 and Slovakia 🇸🇰 were once together....They were cut off by the Hungarians.....They're the only 2 Slavic countries ....that have Slav in their names Slovensky...

  • @sammygibb8397
    @sammygibb8397 6 лет назад +3

    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. 😕

  • @SaudiHaramco
    @SaudiHaramco 7 лет назад +34

    I guess putting the word "slav" into names for regions is just a slavic thing to do. Slavonia, Sloviansk, Bratislava, ...

    • @denizyuksel5093
      @denizyuksel5093 7 лет назад +3

      Nimu Dash Everyone likes to see its race in its country name.

    • @user-zh9dw5yx3c
      @user-zh9dw5yx3c 7 лет назад +21

      Altar Göktunca Slavs aren't a race. It's an ethicity.

    • @filipbatora7523
      @filipbatora7523 7 лет назад +18

      Except word "slav" is English, while in Slovak (and Czech, not sure about other languages), "sláva" means glory and word for Slav is "Slovan".

    • @VasilyKiryanov
      @VasilyKiryanov 7 лет назад +9

      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.

    • @filipbatora7523
      @filipbatora7523 7 лет назад +3

      ***** 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).

  • @TheFancyRoman
    @TheFancyRoman 7 лет назад +92

    Lets just unite the countries as Slovania

    • @Zyragonn
      @Zyragonn 7 лет назад +27

      or slovekia

    • @stefangrubesic2708
      @stefangrubesic2708 7 лет назад +5

      TheFancyRoman yeah... about that, what's with Slavonia in Croatia 😂😂

    • @obsessivelyoli
      @obsessivelyoli 7 лет назад +1

      TheFancyRoman I believe there is a place called 'Slovania' somewhere in former Yugoslavia

    • @stefangrubesic2708
      @stefangrubesic2708 7 лет назад

      Gavin Herrera yeah it is, in Croatia but Slavonia (we say Slavonija) not Slovania

    • @AndrewVasirov
      @AndrewVasirov 7 лет назад +11

      Let's unite all Slavic countries as (Vse) Slavia. :D

  • @ericsauer2537
    @ericsauer2537 6 лет назад +3

    Slovakia and Slovenia also have similar flags.

  • @ZemplinTemplar
    @ZemplinTemplar 7 лет назад +1

    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".

  • @martinsriber7760
    @martinsriber7760 7 лет назад +11

    Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk - ˈtomaːʃ ˈɡarɪk ˈmasarɪk

  • @vincents.6310
    @vincents.6310 7 лет назад +20

    Serbs are gonna get so triggered

  • @erikabelicova3042
    @erikabelicova3042 7 лет назад +1

    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).

  • @FlagArmadaProductions
    @FlagArmadaProductions 4 года назад +2

    You should explain why Slovakia in Slovak is "Slovensko"

  • @luxford60
    @luxford60 7 лет назад +7

    The Austro-Hungarian Empire covered Slovenia as well as Slovakia. Minor point perhaps, but worth mentioning.

    • @beornsheldon9902
      @beornsheldon9902 7 лет назад +1

      Christopher Luxford strange no mention of this fact at all during the video

    • @Motofanable
      @Motofanable 7 лет назад +6

      Almost all forgot Austro-Hungarian monarhy, is far more important(regarding history) than yugoslavia or czechslovakia, in this subject.

    • @overdozze1226
      @overdozze1226 6 лет назад

      David Pusnik UES AUSTRIA HUNGARY SO IMPORTANT!

  • @marcelmeszaros5609
    @marcelmeszaros5609 7 лет назад +63

    haha in slovak language: Slovensko, Slovinsko :)

    • @SuperSilverTrees
      @SuperSilverTrees 5 лет назад +1

      Even smaller difference in their names :D

    • @Pidalin
      @Pidalin 4 года назад

      @@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.

    • @puruttyaaa
      @puruttyaaa 4 года назад

      we call them tóts.
      way easier.

    • @so_qp
      @so_qp 3 года назад

      We have same names even in Czech :D i wonder if Polands have same names for Slovensko and Slovinsko also

    • @lorainev.1295
      @lorainev.1295 3 года назад

      @@puruttyaaa The Tots are only the Slovaks, not the Slovens....

  • @fluffynoses
    @fluffynoses 6 лет назад +1

    it's not just the names that are similar, but rather their flags look way too similar as well

  • @Xeotroid
    @Xeotroid 5 лет назад +3

    In Slovak and Czech, the names are even more similar - Slovensko and Slovinsko. That's a single vowel of difference.

  • @itsYakuza
    @itsYakuza 7 лет назад +7

    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".

    • @AndrewVasirov
      @AndrewVasirov 7 лет назад +10

      Isn't C pronounced as Ts?

    • @urdnotwrex6969
      @urdnotwrex6969 7 лет назад

      in english term, yes, it is pronounced as ts, but as slav, we pronounce it as c :D

    • @AndrewVasirov
      @AndrewVasirov 7 лет назад +6

      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.

    • @urdnotwrex6969
      @urdnotwrex6969 7 лет назад +1

      ah ok

    • @gregorbaby4269
      @gregorbaby4269 6 лет назад

      YakuzYah #staʟe_memes According to the narrator we call ourselves Slovenyaki... Like a species of yaks 😂 😂.. Well we are mountain nation 😂 😂

  • @Thomodian
    @Thomodian 7 лет назад +5

    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

    • @filipbatora7523
      @filipbatora7523 7 лет назад +2

      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.

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 3 года назад

      @@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?

  • @JaPakaj
    @JaPakaj 5 лет назад +1

    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!

  • @RichieLarpa
    @RichieLarpa 2 года назад

    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!

  • @Zero-hf3cm
    @Zero-hf3cm 7 лет назад +5

    wait? i didin't know greece was a part of yugoslavia?

    • @KLemon16
      @KLemon16 7 лет назад +2

      čiki briki

    • @littlemonster6027
      @littlemonster6027 6 лет назад

      Έλληνας Εθνικιστής get back your "Constantinopole" first and then talk shit 😂

  • @DZR3WIND
    @DZR3WIND 7 лет назад +7

    Do Prussia and Russia.

  • @VendPrekmurec
    @VendPrekmurec 5 лет назад +6

    Samo's union 1st common state, king Pribina & Kocelj, common state

  • @gregorbaby4269
    @gregorbaby4269 6 лет назад +5

    As a Slovenian watching this I feel proud & amused 😁

  • @paschikshehu7988
    @paschikshehu7988 7 лет назад +11

    You didn't explain a thing.

  • @armin38822
    @armin38822 7 лет назад +22

    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.

    • @filipbatora7523
      @filipbatora7523 7 лет назад +6

      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
      @armin38822 7 лет назад +3

      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.

    • @filipbatora7523
      @filipbatora7523 7 лет назад +3

      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.

    • @armin38822
      @armin38822 7 лет назад +3

      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.

    • @jkepic25
      @jkepic25 7 лет назад +2

      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.

  • @gabriellisi7349
    @gabriellisi7349 7 лет назад +2

    also, both Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia were part of the Austria-Hungarian Empire

  • @marksimons8861
    @marksimons8861 7 лет назад +1

    In Czech they are even more similar - Slovensko and Slovinkso.

  • @TheBigMMM
    @TheBigMMM 6 лет назад +11

    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.

    • @RealFunnyCinema
      @RealFunnyCinema 4 года назад +1

      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).

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 3 года назад

      It isn`t dragonfly. -ška is just sufix for state name - Hrvaška, Češka, Norveška etc.

  • @niks4459
    @niks4459 6 лет назад +10

    Croatia has region called slavonija

  • @anoNEMOs
    @anoNEMOs 6 месяцев назад +1

    In Czech it's even more confusing:
    Slovenský - Slovak (adj.)
    Slovinský - Slovenian (adj.)
    Slovanský - Slavic
    But:
    A Slovak person is Slovák for some reason

  • @whyareyoureadingthis3936
    @whyareyoureadingthis3936 6 лет назад +5

    KOSOVO IS SERBIA, MACEDONIA IS FYROM

    • @DacLMK
      @DacLMK 6 лет назад +1

      Fuck off, Macedonia is Macedonia. Kosovo is Macedonian.

    • @tententononce2570
      @tententononce2570 5 лет назад +1

      wow, watching those tribes from balcan is pretty fun

  • @lukylunacek7444
    @lukylunacek7444 6 лет назад +3

    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

    • @Pidalin
      @Pidalin 4 года назад

      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.

  • @draganbozilov5268
    @draganbozilov5268 6 лет назад +7

    Slovens are south slavic and Slovaks are west slavic..but Slovakia is eastern than Slovenia..mind boggling..boom :O :D

    • @sammygibb8397
      @sammygibb8397 6 лет назад +2

      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

    • @mattbarbarich3295
      @mattbarbarich3295 5 лет назад +6

      Slovenia and Slovakia are both part of western christendom in central Europe and predominately roman catholic nations, thats whats most important

    • @mitjabrglez9599
      @mitjabrglez9599 5 лет назад +1

      @@mattbarbarich3295 That's not important.

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 3 года назад

      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.

  • @studiokillers4476
    @studiokillers4476 Год назад +1

    and then there's souvlaki, which makes matters even more confusing

  • @galadrijel
    @galadrijel 7 лет назад +1

    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.