Slovak

The Slovak ( slovenčina, slovenský jazyk ) is a Langue pertaining to the Slavic group Western of the family of the Indo-European Langues, primarily spoken in Slovakia and Czech Republic. Slovak minorities exist in Hungary, in Poland, in Romania and of the immigrant communities keep the use of their language in particular to the Canada and the the United States.

It is very close to the Czech to the writing, but remotely phonetically and grammatically. It is near also to the Polish, and more generally mutual comprehension is more or less easy with all the Slavic languages Western and southernmost (Slovenien, Serbe, Croatian, etc) the Slovak one uses a Latin alphabet modified, using diacritics to note certain sounds.

The majority of the Slovak and Czech adults are able to be included/understood mutually without difficulty, having been in permanent contact with the two languages via the radio and of television main roads, until the partition of the Czechoslovakia in 1993. Those not having on this occasion, in particular young people, can have difficulties of comprehension, at the time of the use of certain very different words, or of a too fast oral expression.

Inflections

It is about a inflected Language, where one finds six Cas (Nominatif, Génitif, Datif, Accusatif, Locatif and Instrumental), as well as a survival of the Vocatif. As there are three kind S (male, female, neutral) and that for each kind several variations are possible, the possibilities are numerous (see the Déclinaisons into Slovak).

Pronunciation

The Slovak one decides in general as he is written. The following letters do not decide as in French:
ä - E
C - ts
č - tch
ď - D wet (the diacritic is not an apostrophe!)
E - E or E
H - aspired (as in German)
J - there
ľ - L wet
ň - N wet
O - Diphthong : R - rolled
S - always S
š - CH
ť - T wet
U - or
ž - J
there - as an I

á, E - the grave accent lengthens the Voyelle - R and L can also function like vowels and thus to be lengthened ĺ, ŕ

D, L, N and T are always wet before E or I

Examples

See too

Internal bonds

External bond

  • Dictionary Freelang French-Slovak Dictionary Slovak-French/
  • www.lexilogos.com Dictionary and current expressions

Be-X-old: Славацкаямова Simple: Slovak language

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