Slovak language

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The Slovak language is a West Slavic language spoken primarily in Slovakia and closely related to Czech and Polish.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Slovak 23
Standard Slovak 1

Statements (67)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-European language
West Slavic language
standardized language
closelyRelatedTo Czech language
Sorbian languages
surface form: Lower Sorbian language

Polish language
Silesian language
Upper Sorbian language
hasDialects Central Slovak dialects
surface form: Central Slovak

Eastern Slovak
western Slovakia
surface form: Western Slovak
hasFeature aspectual verb system
fixed word stress on first syllable
grammatical gender
rich inflectional morphology
seven grammatical cases
hasPhoneme ä
ô
č
ď
ĺ
ľ
ň
ŕ
š
ť
ž
hasRegulatedOrthography Slovak orthography
hasStandardForm Slovak language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Standard Slovak
ISO639-1Code sk
ISO639-2Code slk
slo
ISO639-3Code slk
languageFamily Balto-Slavic languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Slavic languages
West Slavic languages
mutuallyIntelligibleWith Czech language
officialLanguageOf Slovakia
primaryCountry Slovakia
regulatedBy Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics
spokenIn Australia
Austria
Canada
Croatia
Czech Republic
Hungary
Romania
Serbia
Slovakia
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States
standardBasedOn Central Slovak dialects
standardizationPeriod 19th century
standardizedBy Ľudovít Štúr
subclassOf Balto-Slavic language
Indo-European language
Slavic language
usedAs liturgical language in some Slovak churches
usedIn Government of Slovakia
surface form: Slovak government

Slovak media
education in Slovakia
usesAlphabet Slovak alphabet
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Latin script
writingSystemType alphabetic

Referenced by (30)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Google Translate availableLanguage Slovak language
this entity surface form: Slovak
Czech language closelyRelatedTo Slovak language
Repre hasLanguage Slovak language
this entity surface form: Slovak
Christina hasLanguageOfUse Slovak language
this entity surface form: Slovak
Joachim hasLanguageOfUse Slovak language
Nicholas hasLanguageOfUse Slovak language
Róbert hasLanguageUsage Slovak language
this entity surface form: Slovak
Slovak language hasStandardForm Slovak language self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Standard Slovak
Balto-Slavic languages includesLanguage Slovak language
West Slavic languages includesLanguage Slovak language
Constitution of Slovakia language Slovak language
this entity surface form: Slovak
northern Slovakia language Slovak language
subject surface form: Northern Slovakia
this entity surface form: Slovak
Sk languageContext Slovak language
this entity surface form: Slovak
this entity surface form: Slovak
National Bank of Slovakia languageOfName Slovak language
this entity surface form: Slovak
this entity surface form: Slovak
Tuka languageOfOrigin Slovak language
this entity surface form: Slovak
SKK languageOfSymbol Slovak language
this entity surface form: Slovak
John languageOfUse Slovak language
this entity surface form: Slovak
Slovak Assembly languageOfWorkOrName Slovak language
this entity surface form: Slovak
this entity surface form: Slovak
southern Slovakia languageWidelySpoken Slovak language
subject surface form: Southern Slovakia
this entity surface form: Slovak
Banská Bystrica officialLanguage Slovak language
this entity surface form: Slovak
Bratislava officialLanguage Slovak language
this entity surface form: Slovak
Bytča officialLanguage Slovak language
this entity surface form: Slovak
Slovakia officialLanguage Slovak language
this entity surface form: Slovak
Slovak Armed Forces standardLanguage Slovak language
this entity surface form: Slovak
Magdalena usedInLanguage Slovak language
this entity surface form: Slovak
Paula usedInLanguage Slovak language
this entity surface form: Slovak
West Slavs usesLanguage Slovak language