10 Facts About Slovak language

Slovak language is closely related to Czech, to the point of mutual intelligibility to a very high degree, as well as Polish.

Slovak language speakers are found in the Slovak language diaspora in the United States, the Czech Republic, Argentina, Serbia, Ireland, Romania, Poland, Canada, Hungary, Germany, Croatia, Israel, the United Kingdom, Australia, Austria, Ukraine, Norway, and other countries to a lesser extent.

Slovak language has final devoicing; when a voiced consonant is at the end of a word before a pause, it is devoiced to its voiceless counterpart .

Slovak language uses the Latin script with small modifications that include the four diacritics placed above certain letters .

Slovak language is a descendant of Proto-Slavic, itself a descendant of Proto-Indo-European.

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The highest number of borrowings in the old Slovak language vocabulary come from Latin, German, Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Greek .

Czech and Slovak language have a long history of interaction and mutual influence well before the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918, a state which existed until 1993.

Slavic Slovak language varieties are relatively closely related, and have had a large degree of mutual influence, due to the complicated ethnopolitical history of their historic ranges.

Commonly used as a greeting or upon parting in Slovak language-speaking regions and some German-speaking regions, particularly Austria.

Standard Slovak is defined by an Act of Parliament on the State Language of the Slovak Republic .