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History of the Slovak language


The Slovak language is a West Slavic language. Historically, it forms a dialect continuum with the Czech language. Its standard orthography is based on the work of Ľudovít Štúr published in the 1840s. It continued to be strongly influenced by Czech, especially in the early 20th century when a single Czechoslovak language was the written standard, but it was introduced as a separate standard in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in the 1960s. The six-volume Dictionary of the Slovak Language (SSJ) was published during 1959–1968, and the Constitutional Law of Federation in 1968 confirmed equal rights for the Slovak and the Czech languages in Czechoslovakia. Since 1993, Slovak has been the official language of the Slovak Republic.

According to the centrist theory, Slovak is the remnant of the Proto-Slavic language spoken in the Middle Danube region before the great migration of the Slavs. The theory was presented already by Matej Bel and was popular in the 19th century when it played a positive role in the Slovak national movement. It depends on Nestor's Primary Chronicle and was supported by several notable members of the movement like Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Anton Bernolák and Ľudovít Štúr. Most modern scholars opposes the opinion about Slavic homeland in the Middle Danube, but the theory was revived in the 20th century by a Russians linguist Oleg Trubachyov.


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