Slovak alphabet contains 46 letters. It is a variation of Latin alphabet. It consists of 13 vowels and 32 consonants. 26 letters are identical with English letters, 17 letters are letters with diacritic marks (ˇ, ´, ¨, ^), 3 are digraphs.
Below is the full Slovak alphabet with sounds. Some letters have no equivalent in English pronunciation.
A | as in | ugly | |
Á | as in | party | |
Ä | as in | mad | |
B | as in | bell | |
C | as in | its | |
Č | as in | cheap | |
D | as in | door | |
Ď | soft D | ||
DZ | there is no equivalent English sound | ||
DŽ | as in | jealous | |
E | as in | pet | |
É | as in | chair | |
F | as in | floor | |
G | as in | get | |
H | as in | history | |
CH | soft H | ||
I | as in | insert | |
Í | as in | free | |
J | as in | year | |
K | as in | kettle | |
L | as in | lemon | |
Ĺ | long L | ||
Ľ | soft L, rather like Luke | ||
M | as in | man | |
N | as in | never | |
Ň | soft N, rather like new | ||
O | as in | pot | |
Ó | as in | chalk | |
Ô | there is no equivalent English sound | ||
P | as in | pen | |
Q | as in | quality | |
R | as in | strong r | |
Ŕ | as in | long r | |
S | as in | strong | |
Š | as in | shoe | |
T | as in | travel | |
Ť | soft T, rather like tube | ||
U | as in | put | |
Ú | as in | pool | |
V | as in | village | |
W | as in | village | |
X | as in | box | |
Y | as in | insert | |
Ý | as in | free | |
Z | as in | zebra | |
Ž | as in | genre |
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