Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
  
Council for German Orthography
  
Interesting Facts
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Czech Language
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Slovak-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ahoj
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Ďakujem vám
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Ako sa máte?
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
Dobrú noc
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
Dobrý večer
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Dobré ráno
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
Prosím
  
bitte
  
Sorry
Pardón!
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Dovidenia
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Ľúbim Ťa
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Prepáčte!
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Central Slovak
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Western Slovak
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.20 million
  
99+
229.00 million
  
8
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.20 million
  
99+
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
slovenčina
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
slovaque
  
allemand
  
German Name
Slowakisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Slovaks
  
Germans
  
Origin
6th Century
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Western
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Slovak
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sk
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
slk
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
slo
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
slk
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
slov1269
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic