Slovak and Czech, the Sister Languages
Slovak is spoken today by about 5 million Slovakians in Slovakia and about a million emigrants in North America. There are smaller Slovakian language groups in Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Czechia, Canada and the USA still today. Since 1 May 2004 Slovakian is an official language of the European Union and therefore binding for translations of operating instructions of every kind.
If necessary, a separate translation can sometimes be dispensed with, since Slovakian parallels the Czech to a very great degree. Slovakians and Czechs understand each other relatively easily, however younger Czechs who have grown up after the political separation of Slovakia and Czechia already find it much harder.
With the exception of the phonetic differences, the Slovakian vocabulary is identical to the Czech for the most part. Differences exist mostly in the use of foreign words which have often been deliberately replaced in the Czech by separate formations, but are in use in the Slovakian. There are also some Hungarian words in the Slovakian, which do not exist in the Czech.
Potential Areas of Expertise for Your Slovakian Translation
- Slovakian in plant construction
- Slovakian in environmental technology
- Slovakian in the automotive industry
- Slovakian in jurisprudence
- Slovakian in the chemical industry
- Slovakian in EDP
- Slovakian in the electrical equipment and the electrical industry
- Business Slovakian
- Slovakian in international trade
- Slovakian in communications and the media
- Slovakian in agriculture
- Slovakian in the construction industry
- Slovakian in biotechnology
- Slovakian in aviation and space technology
- Slovakian in mechanical engineering and plant construction
- Slovakian in medicine, medical technology and pharmaceuticals
- Slovakian in the metalworking industry
- Slovakian in the pharmaceutical industry
