Slovak language

Slovak
slovenčina, slovenský jazyk
Native to	Slovakia; minority language in Czech Republic, Serbia, Hungary
Native speakers	over 7 million (2001 census)
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic West Slavic Czech-Slovak Slovak
Writing system	Latin (Slovak alphabet) Slovak Braille
Official status
Official language in	European Union  Slovakia  Czech Republic[1]  Serbia (Vojvodina) Recognised minority language in:  Hungary  Ukraine
Regulated by	Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Language codes
ISO 639-1	sk
ISO 639-2	slo (B) slk (T)
ISO 639-3	slk
Linguasphere	53-AAA-db < 53-AAA-b...-d (varieties: 53-AAA-dba to 53-AAA-dbs)
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Slovak is the language spoken in Slovakia, a country in Central Europe. It is a language from Slavic language family. It is very similar to Czech, and Czechs and Slovaks understand each other quite well when they speak their own language. Polish and Sorbian are also quite similar. All of them belong to the western branch of Slavic languages. Slovak is spoken by more than 5 million people.

1. ↑ E.g. law 500/2004, 337/1992. Source: http://portal.gov.cz