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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

4
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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0 46

1.3 National Language

Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Europe

1.6 Minority Language

Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine

1.7 Regulated By

Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
  • Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.

1.9 Similar To

Czech Language

1.10 Derived From

Czech-Slovak Language

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

46
Rank: 26 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

15
Rank: 12 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

38
Rank: 27 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Ahoj

3.2 Thank You

Ďakujem vám

3.3 How Are You?

Ako sa máte?

3.4 Good Night

Dobrú noc

3.5 Good Evening

Dobrý večer

3.6 Good Afternoon

Dobré popoludnie

3.7 Good Morning

Dobré ráno

3.8 Please

Prosím

3.9 Sorry

Pardón!

3.10 Bye

Dovidenia

3.11 I Love You

Ľúbim Ťa

3.12 Excuse Me

Prepáčte!

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Eastern Slovak

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Central Slovak

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Western Slovak

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

4
Rank: 4 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

5.20 million
Rank: 72 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

5.20 million
Rank: 66 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

slovenčina

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Slovakian, Slovencina

5.3.4 French Name

slovaque

5.3.5 German Name

Slowakisch

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

Slovaks

6 History

6.1 Origin

6th Century

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Slavic

6.2.2 Branch

Western

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Proto-Slavic

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Slovak

6.3.3 Language Position

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

sk

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

slk

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

slo

7.3 ISO 639 3

slk

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

slov1269

7.6 Linguasphere

53-AAA-db

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Slovak

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Slovak Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Slovak Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Slovak. Slovak phonology gives Slovak vowels and Slovak consonants. There are 15 vowels and 38 consonants in Slovak language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Slovak is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Slovak language is given in detail in this section.

All Slovak countries

Want to explore all Slovak countries? About Slovak language serves you with all Slovak Speaking Countries. Countries that use Slovak as official language are called as Slovak countries.

  • Countries that use Slovak as their National Language are: Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Slovak as second language are: Slovak is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Slovak greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Slovak Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Slovak language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Slovak language.Learn Slovak greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Ahoj
  • Thank you: Ďakujem vám
  • Good Morning: Dobré ráno
  • Good Evening: Dobrý večer
  • Good Afternoon: Dobré popoludnie

All Slovak Language Codes

Get to know all Slovak language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Slovak Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.