Slovak
- noun
- /sloʊˈvɑːk/
- The language of some Texas speakers is closer to standard Slovak than to standard Czech; that of others contains certain elements shared with Polish.
Examples
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For example, if the president is Czech (like Vaclav Havel), then the prime minister must be Slovak, and if the chief justice of the federal supreme or constitutional court is from one nation, then the vice chief justice must be from the other.
Academic text (1991) -
The Workers Dramatic Group of Slovak Lodge 2001 in Newark produced Janosik.
Academic text (1995) -
After the war, he made Czech and Slovak the only official languages, with German and Hungarian regional "minority languages."
Blog text (18) -
The legal merger of ST and mobile arm T-Mobile Slovensko took effect on 1 July 2010 in line with DT's group strategy; the combined company operates under the legal entity of Slovak Telekom, using the
Blog text (32) -
It said, "Slovak? English? Deutsch? Italiano? Francais? Espanol?" "English," Ahmo interrupted.
Fiction book (1999) -
The ethnographic region of Moravian Wallachia is a part of the territory of the East Moravian (also called Moravian Slovak) dialects.
Academic text (1996) -
The director of the executive committee of Slovakia's National Property Fund (NPF), Miloslav Homola, has said that the government should divest its 49% interest in Slovak Telekom (ST) as soon as possible.
Blog text (32) -
The book includes poems written in Slovak alongside their English translations.
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In my class, we often discuss the differences between Slovak and Czech languages.
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Many people are learning Slovak to communicate better with their friends from Slovakia.
Synonyms
A Slavic language spoken mainly in Slovakia
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Slovak comes from the name the Slavic people used for themselves, built on the root slovo meaning 'word'. So Slovak names the language of those people, the language spoken in Slovakia.