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Slovak Language

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Slovak language

Slovak: Official language of Slovakia (formerly eastern Czechoslovakia).

Number of Slovak Speakers: Total of 5.6 million worldwide.

Slovak Speakers: In the Slovak Republics, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Russia, the United States, and Canada.

Language Classification: Slavic subgroup of Indo-European. Closely related to Czech language.

Slovak Dialects: Three.

Slovak Alphabet: Modified Roman alphabet.

Slovak Language Enriched by: Hungarian (extensively) and Czech.

Slovak Standardization Efforts: Started in 1373 by Jan Hus.

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Slovak Orthography: Word order is grammatically free with some fixed order. Six vowels, 28 consonants, and six cases. Richly inflected language. Verbs have three conjugations distinguishing first, second, and third persons, singular and plural. High redundancy in gender and agreement, causing repetition in a sentence. Subject-Verb-Object order.

Unique Features of Slovak: Stress is invariably on the first syllable.

For more linguistic affiliation, language variation, orthography, linguistic sketch, and history of Slovak language UCLA Language Materials Project has a good linguistics and interlingual background information on Slovak.

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