About Slovak Language | Slovak | Alphabets in Slovak

Countries

Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 11 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine

Regulated By

Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic

Interesting Facts

Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.

Similar To

Czech Language

Derived From

Czech-Slovak Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 26 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 12 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 27 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Ahoj

Thank You

Ďakujem vám

How Are You?

Ako sa máte?

Good Night

Dobrú noc

Good Evening

Dobrý večer

Good Afternoon

Dobré popoludnie

Good Morning

Dobré ráno

Please

Prosím

Sorry

Pardón!

Bye

Dovidenia

I Love You

Ľúbim Ťa

Excuse Me

Prepáčte!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Eastern Slovak

Where They Speak

Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin

How Many People Speak

5,500,000.00

Rank: 46 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Central Slovak

Where They Speak

Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec

How Many People Speak

5,500,000.00

Rank: 46 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Western Slovak

Where They Speak

Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie

How Many People Speak

5,500,000.00

Rank: 37 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 4 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.20 million

Rank: 72 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.14 %

Rank: 53 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

5.20 million

Rank: 66 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million

Rank: 47 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

slovenčina

Alternative Names

Slovakian, Slovencina

French Name

slovaque

German Name

Slowakisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsləʊvæk]

Ethnicity

Slovaks

History

Origin

6th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic

Branch

Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Slavic

Standard Forms

Slovak

Language Position

Rank: 25 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Slovak Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

slk

ISO 639 2/B

slo

ISO 639 3

slk

ISO 639 6

slk

Glottocode

slov1269

Linguasphere

53-AAA-db

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Slovak

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Slovak Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Slovak Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Slovak. Slovak phonology gives Slovak vowels and Slovak consonants. There are 15 vowels and 38 consonants in Slovak language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Slovak is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Slovak language is given in detail in this section.

All Slovak countries

Want to explore all Slovak countries? About Slovak language serves you with all Slovak Speaking Countries. Countries that use Slovak as official language are called as Slovak countries.

Countries that use Slovak as their National Language are: Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Slovak as second language are: Slovak is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Slovak greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Slovak Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Slovak language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Slovak language.Learn Slovak greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Ahoj
Thank you: Ďakujem vám
Good Morning: Dobré ráno
Good Evening: Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon: Dobré popoludnie

All Slovak Language Codes

Get to know all Slovak language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Slovak Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.