Monday, November 6, 2017

Slovak language

Every country speaks a certain language. In Slovakia we speak slovak. Not many people know this, but Slovak language is one of the hardest languages in the world!

Our language was created around the 1830s. The creator is called Ľudovít Štúr. He was a politician, news redactor and the codificator of the Slovak language, obviously (of course we spoke a language always but it was usually the "old slovak" until the actual slovak language from the 1830s).
Before all of this happened people spoke either:

  • Hungarian
  • or "Old slovak"
At the time there were a lot of bad sicknesses, so a lot of people did not survive after age about 40.
Ľudovít is the only one of him and his siblings who still lived after the age of 40.
He than dies in 1956 from "hurting himself":
  • He goes on a trip for a mission
  • He has a gun with him on his back
  • It's cold outside
  • In about the middle of the trip he has to jump over a cliff
  • He jumps, slips and his gun gets "activated"
  • He "shoots him self" in the leg
  • After he gets hospitalized
  • A few days later, his leg starts to get better
  • But it is shorter
  • They decide to stretch it, so it gets back to the original length
  • When they do that, the "crack" from shooting opened again and he dies

The Slovak language that he made got remade over the years, (the version that he made was without the letter Y).
This part that was remade is the original slovak language (the simplest one) and the one from middle Slovakia, then there are many more "patoises" or just "special home-made Slovak languages" in different parts of Slovakia

Overall, our language is really difficult because you have to change every word with every person (he, she, it, I...) and every other word is specified because of that and many other things that make this language even more specific, also you read everything how it's written so that is why for example Americans mess it up  so bad usually - because they are used to something completely different (that is why learning another language that is not similar to yours is hard to learn, speak and read).

Sorry this blog post is short, I have a lot of school work but I still wanted to post so I tried at least something.


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