Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Interesting Facts
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Czech Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4629
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
158
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3813
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ahoj
Moi
Thank You
Ďakujem vám
Kiitos
How Are You?
Ako sa máte?
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
Dobrú noc
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
Dobrý večer
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Dobré ráno
Hyvää huomenta
Please
Prosím
haluta
Sorry
Pardón!
Anteeksi
Bye
Dovidenia
Heippa
I Love You
Ľúbim Ťa
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Prepáčte!
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
Finland
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Slovak
Rauma
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Slovak
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
421
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.20 million5.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.20 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
slovenčina
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina
Suomi
French Name
slovaque
finnois
German Name
Slowakisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsləʊvæk]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Slovaks
ethnic Finns
Origin
6th Century
1543
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Western
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Slavic
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Slovak
standard Finnish
Language Position
2722
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovak Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sk
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slk
fin
ISO 639 2/B
slo
fin
ISO 639 3
slk
fin
ISO 639 6
slk
fin
Glottocode
slov1269
finn1318
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic