SOME FACTS ABOUT SLOVAK LANGUAGE
The Slovak language is an Indo-European language, more precisely a West Slavic language (together with mainly the Czech, Polish, and Serbian languages). Slovak is especially close to Czech, speakers of both languages usually understand each other well.
Slovak is spoken in Slovakia (by 5 million people), the USA (500,000, emigrants), the Czech Republic (320,000, due to former Czechoslovakia), Hungary (110,000, ancient ethnic minority), Serbia-Voivodina (60,000), Romania (22,000), Poland (20,000), Canada (20,000, emigrants), Australia (emigrants), Austria, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Croatia (5,000) and some other countries.
The correct American English adjective for the language, people, and culture of Slovakia is ‘Slovak;’ Slovak belongs to the ‘Slavic’ group of languages. British usage sometimes employs ‘Slovakian’ for the American ‘Slovak’ and uses ‘Slavonic’ where the American usage is ‘Slavic’.
