Languages of Slovakia - languages spoken in Slovakia .
The official state language is Slovak , belonging to the group of Slavic languages .
The Hungarian language is equally spoken in southern Slovakia, according to the laws of Slovakia it can be used as an official language along with Slovak in those regions where Hungarians make up over 20 percent of the population.
The maternal (native) language of the majority of residents of Slovakia is the Slovak language: 78.6% of the inhabitants (4,240,453 people), according to the 2011 census. 9.4% of the population (508,714 people) called the Hungarian language their native language. Gypsy is the native language for 2.3% of the population (122 518 people). The Ruthenian language is in fourth place by the number of people who call it their native language - 1% of the population (55,469 people). Other languages scored less than 1% [1] .
Notes
- ↑ Final results of the census in Slovakia in 2011 (words.) (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment November 1, 2016. Archived May 18, 2013.
- ↑ Statistics. Demografia a sociálne štatistiky. Sčítanie obyvateľov, domov a bytov. Sčítanie obyvateľov, domov a bytov 2011. Základné výsledky. Slovenská republika. Tab. 11. Obyvateľstvo SR podľa materinského jazyka (words) . Štatistický úrad Slovenskej republiky (2011). (Retrieved October 25, 2014)