Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
  
India, Nepal
  
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
Slovak-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Central Slovak
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Western Slovak
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
5.20 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.20 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
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
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
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
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
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
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
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