Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
45
0
46
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National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Czech Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4626
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1524
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3823
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
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ahoj
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Ďakujem vám
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Ako sa máte?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Dobrú noc
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Dobrý večer
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Dobré ráno
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Prosím
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Pardón!
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Dovidenia
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Ľúbim Ťa
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Prepáčte!
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Slovak
Wu
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Slovak
Yue
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
410
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.20 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.20 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
slovenčina
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
slovaque
chinois
German Name
Slowakisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsləʊvæk]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Slovaks
Han
Origin
6th Century
1250 BC
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 Chinese
Language Position
271
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovak Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sk
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slk
zho
ISO 639 2/B
slo
chi
ISO 639 3
slk
zho
ISO 639 6
slk
zho
Glottocode
slov1269
sini1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating