Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Hawaii
Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Czech Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4628
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
158
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3820
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
610
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ahoj
您好
Thank You
Ďakujem vám
谢谢
How Are You?
Ako sa máte?
你好吗？
Good Night
Dobrú noc
晚安
Good Evening
Dobrý večer
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
下午好
Good Morning
Dobré ráno
早上好
Please
Prosím
请
Sorry
Pardón!
遗憾
Bye
Dovidenia
再见
I Love You
Ľúbim Ťa
我爱你
Excuse Me
Prepáčte!
原谅我
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Slovak
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Slovak
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.20 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.20 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
slovenčina
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
slovaque
cantonais
German Name
Slowakisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsləʊvæk]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Slovaks
Han Chinese
Origin
6th Century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Slovak
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
271
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovak Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
sk
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slk
yue
ISO 639 2/B
slo
yue
ISO 639 3
slk
No data available
ISO 639 6
slk
yue
Glottocode
slov1269
cant1236
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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