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Language code: sk

Technical information about ISO 639 language code sk

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The table below provides technical details for the Slovak language, designated by the sk code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

sk

Name

Official

Slovak

Native

Slovenčina

Family
West Slavic
Scripts
Latin
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

More info

Language varieties
Western SlovakCentral SlovakEastern Slovak
Related languages
CzechPolishUpper SorbianLower Sorbian
Key facts
Standard Slovak uses the Latin alphabet with 46 letters that include diacriticsThe language obeys a rhythmic law that forbids two adjacent long syllablesIt shows high mutual intelligibility with CzechModern standardization was based on the Central Slovak dialect as codified by Ľudovít Štúr in the 1840sSlovak nouns are declined in six grammatical cases
Sample phrase

Ahoj, ako sa máš?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-2, ISO 8859-16, Windows 1250, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

Slovak belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the West Slavic subgroup. It is an official language in Slovakia, and it is recognized as a minority language in the Vojvodina region in Serbia. It is written using the Latin script (Slovak alphabet). It is estimated that there are around 5.6 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Slovakia

5.1M

Serbia

50K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Slovak speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

sk-SK – Slovak (Slovakia)

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