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A letter of thanks, letter of gratitude, thank you card, or thank you letter is a letter or greetings card that is used when one person/party wishes to express appreciation to another. They are frequently sent after an event (a birthday party, a religious festival or holiday) and especially when a gift has been received [ 1 ] .
The phonetic quality of Slovak diphthongs is as follows: /ɪe/ and /ɪu/ have the same starting point, the same as the short /i/ . The former glides to the short /e/ ( [ɪ̟e̞] ), whereas the latter glides to the position more front than /u/ ( [ɪ̟ʊ] ), so that /ɪu/ ends more front than the starting point of /ʊɔ/ .
Slovak is closely related to Czech, to the point of very high mutual intelligibility, [18] as well as to Polish. [19] Like other Slavic languages, Slovak is a fusional language with a complex system of morphology and relatively flexible word order.
In IPA transcriptions of Slovak, [tʂ, dʐ, ʂ, ʐ] are often written with tʃ, dʒ, ʃ, ʒ , i.e. as if they were palato-alveolar. The palato-alveolar [tʃ, dʒ, ʃ, ʒ] exist in Slovak, but only as allophones of /tʂ, dʐ, ʂ, ʐ/, which are normally retroflex, as in Polish. The following digraphs are not considered to be a part of the Slovak ...
The name Slovak is derived from *Slověninъ, plural *Slověně, the old name of the Slavs (Proglas, around 863). [a] The original stem has been preserved in all Slovak words except the masculine noun; the feminine noun is Slovenka, the adjective is slovenský, the language is slovenčina and the country is Slovensko.
The standard Slovak language, as codified by Ľudovít Štúr in the 1840s, was based largely on Central Slovak dialects spoken at the time. Eastern dialects are considerably different from Central and Western dialects in their phonology, morphology and vocabulary, set apart by a stronger connection to Polish and Rusyn. [8]
Alexander Mach (1902–1980) – Slovak People's Party politician, journalist; Martin Rázus (1888–1937) – Politician, priest; Vavro Šrobár (1867-1950) – Slovak doctor and politician who was a major figure in Slovak politics in the interwar period. Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817–1886) – priest, politician and Speaker of Slovak National ...
Slovak, like most Slavic languages and Latin, is an inflected language, meaning that the endings (and sometimes also the stems) of most words (nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals) change depending on the given combination of the grammatical gender, the grammatical number and the grammatical case of the particular word in the particular sentence: