Slovakia was once part of Hungary and is home to a population of 520,000 ethnic Hungarians who complain of discrimination by the Slovak government. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said the law ...

The Slovak language has hundreds of dialects, so many that Ján Sabol, head of the Slovak Language Department at Prešov University, won't wager a guess as to an approximate number. "There is modern ...

In a borderless European Union that boasts 23 official languages, one member, Slovakia, has enacted a law that limits the use of the languages of some fellow EU members. The extraordinary step has ...

The Slovak Language Law is one of the most extraordinary pieces of legislation imaginable in a democratic country. Even the briefest of glances will show how restrictive it is and what kind of ...

A new state language law passed by the Slovak parliament does not conform to EU standards as it discriminates against minority languages, the vice-chair of the European Parliament's foreign affairs ...

Jordan Banasik, a third-generation Slovak American, remembers a childhood in which language was both inheritance and ...

"Due to Slovakia and Hungary's diverging interests and positions, as well as the internal social and political conditions in the two countries, it appears unlikely that the [language] conflict will be ...

The Slovak parliament passed a new language law Wednesday despite fierce opposition from leaders of the country’s 600,000-strong Hungarian minority and a warning from Hungarian Prime Minister Gyula ...

NOVE ZAMKY, SlovakiaNOVE ZAMKY, Slovakia — In a borderless European Union that boasts 23 official languages, one member, Slovakia, has enacted a law that limits the use of the languages of some fellow ...