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Spoken by approximately 5 million people as a native language, primarily ethnic Slovaks, it serves as the official language of Slovakia and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union . Slovak is closely related to Czech, to the point of very high mutual intelligibility, [18] as well as Polish. [19]
The Slovak language is a West Slavic language. Historically, it forms a dialect continuum with Czech. The written standard is based on the work of Ľudovít Štúr, published in the 1840s and codified in July 1843 in Hlboké.
Slovak ( / ˈsloʊvæk, - vɑːk / SLOH-va (h)k; endonym: slovenčina [ ˈslɔʋentʂina] or slovenský jazyk [ ˈslɔʋenskiː ˈjazik]) is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script. It is part of the Indo-European language family, and is one of the Slavic languages, which are part of the larger Balto-Slavic branch.
Slovak is the language spoken in Slovakia, a country in Central Europe. It is a language from Slavic language family. It is very similar to Czech, and Czechs and Slovaks understand each other quite well when they speak their own language. Polish and Sorbian are also quite similar.
Slovak is a Western Slavonic language spoken by about 5.6 million people in Slovakia and also in Canada, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Ukraine and the USA. Slovak is closely related to Czech , Polish, and Sorbian .
About the language. History. The West Slavonians, who settled down in the area of present day Slovakia, separated by language from Proto-Slavic in the 10th century and their language further developed within the different dialect groups.
Linguistic structure of Slovakia in 2021. The official language is Slovak, a member of the Slavic language family. Hungarian is widely spoken in the southern regions, and Rusyn is used in some parts of the Northeast.
