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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)
Bhojpuri
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)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

15
Rank: 12 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

38
Rank: 27 (Overall)
German
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)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Cebuano
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)
Macedonian
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)
Dzongkha
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)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

4
Rank: 4 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

5.20 million
Rank: 72 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

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

5.3 Native Speakers

5.20 million
Rank: 66 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
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)
Chinese
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

Origin of Slovak language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Slovak language is one of the Best Languages to Learn. The origin of Slovak language states that it was put to use in 6th Century. The history of Slovak language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Slovak Language History.The evolution of Slovak language began with early forms such as Proto-Slavic. Slovak is the standard form of Slovak language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Slovak Language.

Slovak population

Slovak population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Slovak language. Slovak language is spoken by 5.20 million people in the world. Most of the Slovak population lies in the Slovak Speaking Countries. Slovak language is spoken as first language by 5.20 million people and no total count of people speaking Slovak as second language. Get to know Slovak speaking population in detail.

Slovak writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Slovak writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Slovak language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by Slovak language. Learn more about . 

Information about Slovak language

Check out all the information about Slovak language here. You may find it interesting to learn Slovak Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Slovak Speaking Countries, Slovak speaking continents and Slovak Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Slovak countries knowing common Slovak Greetings will help you in communicating with Slovak people.