Slovak

Slo·vak

S0482300 (slō′väk′, -văk′) also Slo·va·ki·an (slō-vä′kē-ən, -văk′ē-ən)n.1. a. A native or inhabitant of Slovakia.b. A person of Slovak ancestry.2. The Slavic language of the Slovaks.adj. Of or relating to Slovakia or its people, language, or culture.

[Slovak Slovák.]

Slovak

(ˈsləʊvæk) adj1. (Placename) of, relating to, or characteristic of Slovakia, its people, or their language2. (Peoples) of, relating to, or characteristic of Slovakia, its people, or their language3. (Languages) of, relating to, or characteristic of Slovakia, its people, or their languagen4. (Languages) the official language of Slovakia, belonging to the West Slavonic branch of the Indo-European family. Slovak is closely related to Czech, they are mutually intelligible5. (Peoples) a native or inhabitant of Slovakia

Slo•vak

(ˈsloʊ vɑk, -væk)

n. 1. a member of the Slavic people who are the principal inhabitants of Slovakia. 2. the West Slavic language of the Slovaks. [1820–30; < Slovak slovák, ultimately derivative of Common Slavic *slověninŭ Slav]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Slovak - a native or inhabitant of SlovakiaSlovak Republic, Slovakia - a landlocked republic in central Europe; separated from the Czech Republic in 1993European - a native or inhabitant of Europe
	2.	Slovak - the Slavic language spoken in SlovakiaSlavic, Slavic language, Slavonic, Slavonic language - a branch of the Indo-European family of languages

Translations

斯洛伐克人斯洛伐克的斯洛伐克语

Slovak

→ 斯洛伐克人zhCN, 斯洛伐克的zhCN, 斯洛伐克语zhCN

Slovak

the official language of Slovakia, belonging to the West Slavonic branch of the Indo-European family. Slovak is closely related to Czech, they are mutually intelligible

Slovak

the language of the Slovaks, who live primarily in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. According to the 1970 census, there are approximately 4.2 million speakers of Slovak, including 3.9 million in Slovakia.

Slovak belongs to the group of West Slavic languages and has three dialects: Western, Central, and Eastern. In its structure, Slovak is close to Czech; it also resembles the South Slavic languages in a number of features. Phonetic peculiarities include the separate vowel ä, the consonants dz and dž, the diphthongs ô (uo), ia, iu, and ie, and the opposition of l and l’. There are oppositions of vowels based on length (a-á, o-ó, u-ú, and i-í) and of the liquid consonants (r-ŕ, l-ĺ). Slovak features a rhythmic principle according to which long syllables may not appear consecutively within a word. Its morphological structure is characterized by a high degree of regularity in declensional and conjugational forms; for example, the endings -m in the first person singular of verbs, -om in the instrumental singular of masculine and neuter nouns, and -u in the genitive singular of masculine nouns in -a. Slovak is also characterized by the loss of the nominal forms of adjectives. The language has preserved the forms of the pluperfect.

Slovak is written in the Latin alphabet using a number of diacritics. The oldest documents date from the 15th and 16th centuries. The fundamentals of the modern literary language were established in the 1840’s based on the Central Slovak dialect, which unites the cultures of the other dialect groups.

REFERENCES

Selishchev, A. M. Slavianskoe iazykoznanie, vol. 1. Moscow, 1941.
Stanislav. J. Dejiny slovenského jazyka, vols. 1-5. Bratislava, 1956–73.
Pauliny, E. Dejiny spisovnej slovenčiny, vol. 1. Bratislava, 1971.
Morfológia slovenského jazyka. Bratislava, 1966.
Pauliny, E., J. Ružička, and J. Štolc. Slovenská gramatika, 5th ed. Bratislava. 1968.
Isačenko, A. V. Slovensko-ruský prekladovy slovnik. vols. 1-2. Bratislava, 1950–57.
Slovník slovenského jazyka, vols. 1-6. Bratislava, 1959-68.

L. N. SMIRNOV

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