The Czech–Slovak group developed within West Slavic in the high medieval period, and the standardization of Czech … See more

Slovak language is primarily spoken in Slovakia. The country's constitution declared it the official language of the state (štátny jazyk):
(1) Na území Slovenskej republiky je štátnym jaz… See more

There are many Slovak dialects, which are divided into the following four basic groups:
• Western Slovak dialects (Trenčín, Trnava, Nitra, Záhorie)
• Central Slovak dialects (in Liptov, Orava, Turiec, Tekov, Hont, Novohrad, Gemer and … See more

Slovak contains 15 vowel phonemes (11 monophthongs and four diphthongs) and 29 consonants.
The phoneme /æ/ is marginal and often merges with /e/; the two are normally only distinguish… See more

Slovak uses the Latin script with small modifications that include the four diacritics (ˇ, ´, ¨, ˆ) placed above certain letters (a-á,ä; c-č; d-ď; dz-dž; e-é; i-í; l-ľ,ĺ; n-ň; o-ó,ô; r-ŕ; s-š; t-ť; u-ú; y-ý; z-ž)
The primar… See more

The main features of Slovak syntax are as follows:
• The verb (predicate) agrees in person and number with its subject.
Some examples include the following:
Speváčka s… See more

Slovak is a descendant of Proto-Slavic, itself a descendant of Proto-Indo-European. It is closely related to the other West Slavic languages, primarily to Czech and Polish. Czech also influenced the language in its later develo… See more