Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
France, Spain
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
Similar To
Czech Language
Spanish
Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4627
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3821
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ahoj
Kaixo
Thank You
Ďakujem vám
Eskerrik asko
How Are You?
Ako sa máte?
Zer moduz?
Good Night
Dobrú noc
Gabon
Good Evening
Dobrý večer
Arratsalde on
Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
Arratsalde on
Good Morning
Dobré ráno
Egun on
Please
Prosím
Mesedez
Sorry
Pardón!
Barkatu
Bye
Dovidenia
Agur
I Love You
Ľúbim Ťa
Maite zaitut
Excuse Me
Prepáčte!
Barkatu
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
Navarro-Lapurdian
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
France
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.0068,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Slovak
Souletin
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
France, Soule, Spain
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.008,700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Slovak
Biscayan
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
Spain
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00750,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.20 million7.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.20 million7.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million0.70 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
slovenčina
Euskara
Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
French Name
slovaque
basque
German Name
Slowakisch
Baskisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsləʊvæk]
[bɑːsk]
Ethnicity
Slovaks
Basque people
Origin
6th Century
c. 1000
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Vasconic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Slavic
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Standard Forms
Slovak
Basque
Language Position
2730
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovak Sign Language
Basque Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
sk
eu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slk
eus
ISO 639 2/B
slo
baq
ISO 639 3
slk
eus
ISO 639 6
slk
eus
Glottocode
slov1269
basq1248
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
40-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative