Slovak
slovenčina
Slovak is an Indo-European language spoken in Slovakia, Czechia, Serbia, and Hungary, by about 6 million people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Slovak ( 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.
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Written down
Všetci ľudia sa rodia slobodní a sebe rovní , čo sa týka ich dostojnosti a práv. Sú obdarení rozumom a majú navzájom jednať v bratskom duchu.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Slovak
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| mother | matka | |
| father | otec | |
| child | dieťa | |
| man | muž | |
| woman | žena | |
| person | osoba | |
| name | meno | |
| friend | priateľ | |
| eye | oko | |
| ear | ucho | |
| nose | nos | |
| tooth | zub | |
| tongue | jazyk | |
| hand | ruka | |
| heart | srdce | |
| head | hlava | |
| blood | krv | |
| bone | kosť | |
| skin | koža | |
| knee | koleno | |
| breast | prsník | |
| liver | pečeň | |
| water | voda | |
| fire | oheň | |
| sun | slnko | |
| moon | mesiac | |
| star | hviezda | |
| sky | nebo | |
| rain | dážď | |
| snow | sneh |
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- CzechIndo-European67% alike
- Serbian-Croatian-BosnianIndo-European61% alike
- RusynIndo-European57% alike
- Upper SorbianIndo-European56% alike
- SlovenianIndo-European55% alike
- SlavomolisanoIndo-European52% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
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