Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
44
0
46
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National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Czech Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4633
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3821
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ahoj
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Ďakujem vám
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Ako sa máte?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Dobrú noc
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Dobrý večer
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Dobré ráno
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Prosím
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Pardón!
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Dovidenia
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Ľúbim Ťa
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Prepáčte!
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Slovak
Olonets
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
Olonets
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Slovak
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
413
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.20 million276.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %2.33 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.20 million166.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
slovenčina
Русский
Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina
Russki
French Name
slovaque
russe
German Name
Slowakisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsləʊvæk]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Slovaks
Russians
Origin
6th Century
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Slavic
Branch
Western
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Slavic
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Slovak
Standard Russian
Language Position
277
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovak Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sk
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slk
rus
ISO 639 2/B
slo
rus
ISO 639 3
slk
rus
ISO 639 6
slk
rus
Glottocode
slov1269
russ1263
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic