Slovak
West Slavic language spoken in Slovakia
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Key Facts
- Country: Hungary[3], Serbia[4], Slovakia[5], Romania[6], Ukraine[7]
- Instance of: modern language[8]
- Subclass of: Czech–Slovak languages[9], West Slavic[10]
- Writing system: Latin script[11]
- Commons category: Slovak language[12]
- Wikimedia language code: sk[13]
- Topic's main category: Category:Slovak language[14]
- Language regulatory body: Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics[15]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 6,000,000[16]
- Described by source: Pravidlá slovenského pravopisu (4th edition)[17], Morfológia slovenského jazyka[18], Krátky slovník slovenského jazyka (5th edition)[19], Pravidlá slovenskej výslovnosti (2nd edition)[20], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22], Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[23]
- Topic has template: Template:-sk-[24]
- Native label: slovenčina[25], slovenský jazyk[26]
- Short name: slovenčina[27], словашки[28], славацкая[29], slovaka[30], Slovak[31], словакаг[32], slovaščina[33]
- Different from: Slovene[34]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[35]
- Indigenous to: Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County[36], Zala County[37], Bratislava Region[38], Slovakia[39]
- Female form of label: la langue slovaque[40]
- Studied by: Slovak studies[41]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SLK[42]
- Has grammatical case: nominative case[43], genitive case[44], dative case[45], accusative case[46], vocative case[47]
Why It Matters
Slovak has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[48] Slovak is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[49]