Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Lithuania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Poland
Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Interesting Facts
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Czech Language
Latvian
Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4632
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3820
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ahoj
Sveiki
Thank You
Ďakujem vám
Ačiū
How Are You?
Ako sa máte?
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
Dobrú noc
Labanakt
Good Evening
Dobrý večer
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
Laba diena
Good Morning
Dobré ráno
Labas rytas
Please
Prosím
Prašom
Sorry
Pardón!
atsiprašau
Bye
Dovidenia
Ate
I Love You
Ľúbim Ťa
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
Prepáčte!
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Slovak
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Slovak
Curonian
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
410
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.20 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.20 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
slovenčina
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
slovaque
lituanien
German Name
Slowakisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsləʊvæk]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Slovaks
Lithuanians
Origin
6th Century
c. 1503
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Western
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Slovak
Lithuanian
Language Position
2744
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovak Sign Language
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sk
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slk
lit
ISO 639 2/B
slo
lit
ISO 639 3
slk
lit
ISO 639 6
slk
lit
Glottocode
slov1269
lith1251
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic