Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
European Union, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Poland
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
Interesting Facts
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
Similar To
Czech Language
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4632
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
159
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3823
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ahoj
cześć
Thank You
Ďakujem vám
dziękuję
How Are You?
Ako sa máte?
Jak się masz?
Good Night
Dobrú noc
dobranoc
Good Evening
Dobrý večer
dobry wieczór
Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
dzień dobry
Good Morning
Dobré ráno
Dzień dobry
Please
Prosím
proszę
Sorry
Pardón!
Przepraszam
Bye
Dovidenia
do widzenia
I Love You
Ľúbim Ťa
kocham Cię
Excuse Me
Prepáčte!
przepraszam
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
Kashubian
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
Poland
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00108,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Slovak
Masovian
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
Poland
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.0045,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Slovak
Silesian
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
Czech Republic, Poland
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00510,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
434
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.20 million40.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %0.61 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.20 million40.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
slovenčina
Polski
Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina
Polnisch, Polski
French Name
slovaque
polonais
German Name
Slowakisch
Polnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsləʊvæk]
[ˈpɔlski]
Ethnicity
Slovaks
Poles
Origin
6th Century
1270
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Slavic
Branch
Western
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Slavic
Old Polish and Middle Polish
Standard Forms
Slovak
Polish
Language Position
2724
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Slovak Sign Language
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sk
pl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slk
pol
ISO 639 2/B
slo
pol
ISO 639 3
slk
pol
ISO 639 6
slk
pols
Glottocode
slov1269
poli1260
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
53-AAA-cc
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic