Slovak or Slovakian is one of the official languages of the European Union since 2004. It belongs to the West Slavic group of languages, which includes Czech, Polish, Silesian, Slovincian and Sorbian. Due to geographical reasons, these neighbouring countries have influenced each other and shared a great part of their history. Slovak is spoken mainly in the Slovak Republic by about 7 million people. In 1993, when Czechoslovakia split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic, the Slovak language became the official language of Slovakia. Slovak dialects can be divided into four main groups: Eastern Slovak, Central Slovak, Western Slovak and Lowland. The standard language is the Central dialect because it is taught in schools and commonly used for official...
Sinhala is an Indo-European language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch, though it has been influenced by members of the Dravidian language group. Sinhala is one of two local languages on the island country of Sri Lanka and spoken by 16 million people. Because Sri Lanka is a small island and Sinhala is not used elsewhere, it has some unique features that are not found in any other Indo-Aryan language.Sinhala has its own script and writing style which is considered a derivation of the Indian Brahmi language. Like other Indian languages, its origin can be traced back more than 2000...
The Serbian language is part of the Slavic language family with 10 million speakers. Serbian dialects can be divided into two main groups: Shtoktavian and Torlakia. The standard language in Serbia is based on the Shtoktavian dialect. Serbian is strongly influenced by Turkish. In fact, within the language, there are around 8000 words of Turkish origin. One feature of the Serbian language is that it is the only European language that uses both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets. Since 2006, the Cyrillic alphabet is the official script in...
There are an estimated 21 million people in the world who speak Sindhi. It is primarily spoken in Pakistan and India where it is an official language. Sindhi can be categorized into six major dialect groups. Of the six, Vicholi is used as the standard dialect because it is widely accepted as the education and administration language in Sindh,...
Sanskrit is an archaic language used primarily as a liturgical language in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. It is one of the 22 official languages of India. According to a 2001 census, it is spoken by 14,000 native speakers. Snaskrit is considered the oldest language in human history and the mother of all languages. It is also called the language of the gods. The Sanskrit alphabet is called ‘Devanagari’ which means ‘cities of the gods’. It can be traced back at least 5,000 years to ancient Hindu texts written in the Devanagari alphabet. This historical language has influenced and become the basis of every language spoken in India...
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Romanian is a Latin Romance language spoken by about 25 million people in Romania, Moldova and the Ukraine. It was added as one of official languages of the European Union in 2007. It is closest to modern Italian in terms of mutual intelligibility, but also retains a number of features of old Latin and also contains many words taken from the surrounding Slavic languages, as well as from French, German, Greek and Turkish. Romanian is the only Romance language spoken in Eastern Europe, which makes it an interesting subject of study to scholars. There are four primary dialects in the Romanian language: Daco-Romanian, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian. The standard Romanian is Daco-Romanian and it is the primary dialect widely used in Romania and...
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Polish is the official language of Poland and is spoken by approximately 40 million people worldwide. It has been designated as one of official languages of the European Union since 2004. Polish is the second most spoken Slavic language, after Russian, and it is also one of the most difficult languages to learn due to very complicated grammar. Standard Polish is spoken by all Polish speakers, though there are many dialects that are unique to the various regions of Poland. Native Polish speakers have no difficulties understanding all the variations because there are few differences from the standard Polish. Read more interesting facts about Polish in our November 2008...
