Slovakia Languages: Difference between revisions

Most of the people in Slovakia speak the Slovak language. Slovak is a slavic language related to Czech, Polish and Russian. The Czech and Slovak languages are very much alike. These two languages are the most similar of all slavic languages. Except for modern records of the 1900s, records in Slovakia were written mostly in Latin and Hungarian. Many records were also written in German. Other languages sometimes used in Slovak records include Ukrainian (Ruthene dialect), Czech, Slovak, Old Church Slavonic, Polish, Hebrew, and Yiddish.  

Slovak is a member of the West Slavic sub-group of the Slavic languages of the Indo-European language family. It is related to Czech and Polish. It is used in the genealogical sources throughout the Slovak Republic. Slovak is the language of the Slovak Republic, and was the official language in the Slovak lands in the former Czechoslovakia. In addition, the Slovak language may be found in the records of Slovak communities in the United States and Canada or other areas settled by Slovaks.