Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Czech Language
Hindi
Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4648
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1512
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3836
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
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
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Hello
Ahoj
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Ďakujem vám
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Ako sa máte?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Dobrú noc
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Dobrý večer
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Dobré ráno
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Prosím
कृपया
Sorry
Pardón!
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Dovidenia
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Ľúbim Ťa
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Prepáčte!
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
Doteli
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
Nepal
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Slovak
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Slovak
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
Nepal
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
412
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.20 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.20 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
slovenčina
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
slovaque
népalais
German Name
Slowakisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈsləʊvæk]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Slovaks
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
6th Century
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Western
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Slavic
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Slovak
Nepali
Language Position
2759
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovak Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
sk
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slk
nep
ISO 639 2/B
slo
nep
ISO 639 3
slk
npi
ISO 639 6
slk
nep
Glottocode
slov1269
nepa1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative