(in English)
Spoken natively in Slovakia;
minority language in Czech Republic, Serbia, Hungary.
Native speakers over 5 million
(2001 census).
Language family - Indo-European,
Balto-Slavic, Slavic, West Slavic, Czech-Slovak, Slovak.
Writing system - Latin (Slovak
alphabet).
Slovak, slovenčina, not to be confused with slovenski jezik
or slovenščina, the native name of the Slovene language), is an
Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages (together with
Czech, Polish, Silesian, Kashubian, and Sorbian).
Slovak is the official language of Slovakia where it is spoken by 5 million
people. There are also Slovak speakers in the United States, the Czech Republic,
Serbia, Ireland, Romania, Poland, Canada, Hungary, Croatia, the United Kingdom,
Australia, Austria, and Ukraine.