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Slovak linguists do not usually use IPA for phonetic transcription of their own language or others, but have their own system based on the Slovak alphabet. Many English language textbooks make use of this alternative transcription system. In the following table, pronunciation of each grapheme is given in this system as well as in the IPA.
In Czech and Slovak, 'Ahoj' (pronounced) is a commonly used as an informal greeting, comparable to "Hello". It was borrowed from English [1] and became popular among people engaged in water sports. It gained wide currency by the 1930s. [1]
1899 postcard with the first line in Czech (Hej Slované ještě naše slovanská řeč žije!) and views of several Slav cities "Hey, Slavs" is a patriotic song dedicated to the Slavs and widely considered to be the Pan-Slavic anthem.
Slovak: čau (variations: čauko, čaves, čauky, čaf); mostly as "goodbye", but stands in for "hello" primarily in informal written communication (text messages, emails) and phone calls because it is more character-efficient/shorter and more hip than the Slovak "ahoj" Slovene: ciao, čau or čaw ("hello" or "goodbye"); also čaw čaw ("bye bye")
The first Slovak orthography was proposed by Anton Bernolák (1762–1813) in his Dissertatio philologico-critica de litteris Slavorum, ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Slovak on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Slovak in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The salutation is spelled servus in German, [2] Bavarian, Slovak, [3] Romanian [4] and Czech. [5] In Rusyn and Ukrainian it is spelled сервус, in the Cyrillic alphabet. [6] [7] In Slovenian and Croatian [8] the variant spelling serbus is also used. The greeting is spelled szervusz in Hungarian [9] and serwus in Polish. [10]
Slovak is closely related to Czech, to the point of very high mutual intelligibility, [18] as well as Polish. [19] Like other Slavic languages, Slovak is a fusional language with a complex system of morphology and relatively flexible word order. Its vocabulary has been extensively influenced by Latin [20] and German, [21] as well as other ...