Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Czech Language
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Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Thank You
Ďakujem vám
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Ako sa máte?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Dobrú noc
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Dobrý večer
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Dobré ráno
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Bye
Dovidenia
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Ľúbim Ťa
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Prepáčte!
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Central Slovak
Wu
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Western Slovak
Yue
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
slovenčina
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina
Not Available
French Name
slovaque
chinois
German Name
Slowakisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Origin
6th Century
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
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Branch
Western
Not Available
Early Forms
Proto-Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Slovak
Standard Chinese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
slov1269
sini1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
Slovak and Chinese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Slovak and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Slovak and Chinese language. Slovak word for "Hello" is Ahoj or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Slovak Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Slovak vs Chinese Difficulty
The Slovak vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Slovak Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Slovak and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Slovak and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Slovak is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.