Languages of Slovakia
Slovakia. 5,387,000. National or official language: Slovak. Officially separated from Czech Republic January 1, 1993. Literacy rate: 99%. Immigrant languages: Bulgarian (1,180), Czech (44,600), Russian. Information mainly from B. Comrie 1987; I. Hancock 1990. Blind population: 10,000 in former Czechoslovakia. Deaf institutions: 51 in former Czechoslovakia. The number of individual languages listed for Slovakia is 10. Of those, all are living languages.
| Croatian | [hrv]
890 in Slovakia (2001 census).
Dialects: Croatian.
Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, South, Western
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| German, Standard | [deu]
5,410 in Slovakia (2001 census).
Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Middle German, East Middle German
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| Hungarian | [hun]
521,000 in Slovakia (2001 census). South.
Alternate names: Magyar.
Classification: Uralic
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| Polish | [pol]
2,600 in Slovakia (2001 census).
Alternate names: Polski.
Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, West, Lechitic
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| Romani, Carpathian | [rmc]
89,900 in Slovakia (2001 census). North, east, and south Slovakia.
Alternate names: Bashaldo, Hungarian-Slovak Romani, Romungro.
Dialects: Moravian Romani, East Slovakian Romani, West Slovakian Romani.
Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Romani, Northern
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| Romani, Vlax | [rmy]
500 in Slovakia.
Dialects: Lovari, Kalderash (Kaldarári).
Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Romani, Vlax
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| Rusyn | [rue]
24,200 in Slovakia (2001 census). Northeast Slovakia, Preshov region.
Alternate names: Carpathian, Carpatho-Rusyn, Ruthenian.
Dialects: Lemko.
Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, East
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| Slovak | [slk]
4,610,000 in Slovakia (2001 census). Population total all countries: 5,019,950. Western uplands, Bratislava area. Also in Austria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, United States.
Alternate names: Slovakian.
Dialects: Slovaks in western and central parts of the speech community can understand Czech [ces].
Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, West, Czech-Slovak
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| Slovakian Sign Language | [svk]
Classification: Deaf sign language
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| Ukrainian | [ukr]
10,800 in Slovakia (2001 census).
Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, East
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