Slovak

slovenčina

Slovak is a language, spoken in Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia and Romania and 1 more country. Wikidata counts about 6 m speakers. Wikidata describes it as “West Slavic language native to Slovakia”.

1 · NationalLatn 6 m

Wikidata record Glottolog

At a glance

ISO 639-3: slk
ISO 639-1: sk
Glottocode: slov1269
Family: unclassified
EGIDS: 1 National
UNESCO: Safe
Centre point: 49.00, 19.00
Wikipedia: 182 language editions

—first-language speakers

—second-language speakers

5countries

1scripts

—levels in the tree

1EGIDS level

Facts

Name	Slovak · slovenčina
Also called	Slovak language, Slovakian, Slovakian language
All speakers	6,000,000
Written in	Latin script
Official in	Slovakia
Grammatical cases	7 listed in Wikidata
Grammatical genders	7 listed in Wikidata

Vitality

EGIDS 1 National1

Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.

Other languages at this level

UNESCO: Safe

Languages at this level

where it is spoken

Map and countries

A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.

Map of the area where Slovak is spoken — Map: The original uploader was Fobos92 at Wikimedia Commons . · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Slovakiaofficial · 10 languages in the index Hungary10 languages in the index Serbia18 languages in the index Romania18 languages in the index Ukraine23 languages in the index

Also spoken in Slovakia

romRomaniIndo-European · 46 mDefinitely endangered ukrUkrainianIndo-European · 34.7 m1 · National hunHungarianUralic · 12.6 m1 · National hrvCroatianIndo-European · 7 m1 · National rueRusynIndo-European · 610,0006a · Vigorous rmyVlax RomaniIndo-European · 538,4806b · Threatened rmcCarpathian RomaniIndo-European · 150,0005 · Developing chuChurch SlavonicIndo-European6b · Threatened svkSlovak Sign Languageunclassified5 · Developing