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 |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Slovak Native Slovenčina |
| Family | West Slavic |
| Scripts | |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Plural rules | |
| 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 |
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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
*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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- Reports and Statistics
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- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
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- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ