Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Palau
Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Interesting Facts
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Czech Language
Korean Language
Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4699
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3814
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ahoj
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Ďakujem vám
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Ako sa máte?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
Dobrú noc
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Dobrý večer
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Dobré ráno
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
Prosím
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Pardón!
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Dovidenia
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Ľúbim Ťa
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Prepáčte!
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Slovak
Hakata
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Slovak
Kansai
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
kansai
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
431
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.20 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.20 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
slovenčina
日本語
Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina
Nihongo
French Name
slovaque
japonais
German Name
Slowakisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsləʊvæk]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Slovaks
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
6th Century
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Slavic
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Slovak
Japanese
Language Position
278
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovak Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sk
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slk
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
slo
jpn
ISO 639 3
slk
jpn
ISO 639 6
slk
jpn
Glottocode
slov1269
nucl1643
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic