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Slovak

Slovak

Summary

Slovak is natively spoken by about 4.5 million people, primarily in Slovakia, where it is the official language. It is integral to Slovak cultural identity, known for its folk traditions, music, and historical sites like Spiš Castle. Written in the Latin alphabet, Slovak grammar features a subject-verb-object (SVO) word order, noun cases to indicate grammatical relationships, and a system of verb conjugations that indicate tense, aspect, and mood.

Stats

  • Language Family: Indo-European

  • Writing System: Latin

  • Writing System Type: Alphabet

  • Writing Direction: L to R

  • Tones / Pitch Accent: N

  • Morphology: Fusional

  • Cases: 6

  • Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 4

  • Number of Verb Tenses: 3

  • Word Order: SVO

  • Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 9

  • Number of Consonants: 29

Areas Where Spoken

  • Slovak (official) (82.0%) (4.45 mil)

Resources

Websites

  • E-Slovak : a couple of self-study courses you will be able to take for free, takes information directly from Comenius University in Bratislava

  • Language Course : A vocabulary trainer that ranges from A1 to C1, if you're looking for specific words to learn (Travelling, Shopping, Business) then you'll be able to select a quick course on that as well.

  • JayWay Travels : Not a Slovak YouTube Channel, but this particular video will teach you the basics of Slovak followed up by proper pronunciation.

  • Dict.cc : An English to Slovak dictionary, does include a couple of othr languages from Europe.

  • Slovak Lessons Beginner : Slovak Lessons for beginners, only text and no audio.

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