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Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia

Total No. Of Countries
4 11

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
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Alphabets
46 26

Phonology

How Many Vowels
15 12

How Many Consonants
38 27

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 46

Dialect 2
Central Slovak

Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec

How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00 46

Dialect 3
Western Slovak

Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie

How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00 37

Total No. Of Dialects
4 4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.20 million 72

Speaking Population
0.14 % 53

Native Speakers
5.20 million 66

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million 47

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
27 25

Signed Forms
Slovak Sign Language

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
sk

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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