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]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C154116[27]
- Short name: slovenčina[28], словашки[29], славацкая[30], slovaka[31], Slovak[32], словакаг[33], slovaščina[34], словацкий[35]
- Different from: Slovene[36]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[37]
- Indigenous to: Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County[38], Zala County[39], Bratislava Region[40], Slovakia[41]
- Female form of label: la langue slovaque[42]
- Studied by: Slovak studies[43]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SLK[44]
Why It Matters
Slovak has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[45] Slovak is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[46]