Slovak

Also known as Slovak language, Slovakian, Slovakian language

West Slavic language spoken in Slovakia

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Slovak is a West Slavic language spoken primarily in Slovakia, a country in Central Europe. It matters because it is the official language of Slovakia and is spoken by millions of people as their primary means of communication in daily life, government, and culture.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: modern language
Subclass of: West Slavic
Country: Ukraine

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Wikimedia language code: sk
indigenous to: Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County
short name: slovaščina
Commons category: Slovak language
has grammatical number: plural
topic's main category: Category:Slovak language
writing system: Latin script
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 6000000
language regulatory body: Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics
category for films in this language: Category:Slovak-language films
native label: slovenský jazyk
studied by: Slovak studies
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SLK
different from: Slovene
has grammatical case: instrumental case
has grammatical gender: neuter
female form of label: la langue slovaque
has grammatical mood: imperative
entry in abbreviations table: словац.
has tense: pluperfect
uses capitalization for: toponym
P10369: El Greco
on focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Ukraine
P11012: Il Canto degli Italiani
P8168: distributed database
topic has template: Template:-sk-

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Encyclopedic overview

Slovak (/ˈsloʊvæk, -vɑːk/ SLOH-va(h)k; endonym: slovenčina [ˈslɔʋent͡ʂina] 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. Spoken by approximately five 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, as well as to Polish. Like other Slavic languages, Slovak is a fusional language with a complex system of morphology and relatively flexible word order. Its vocabulary has been extensively influenced by Latin and German, as well as other Slavic languages.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Slovak” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.