I have been able to find word lists and letter writing guides for Hungarian, Polish, German, Spanish, etc. but not for Slovakian. Is there any web site that will provide some basics? (What is correct Slovak, Slovakian, Slavic?) Donna

The most commonly accepted term for the language is Slovak (Slovensky' in Slovak). Extensive wordlists just don't exist. Even dictionaries are difficult to find, it will probably be a few more years before Slovak based translation documents are easily found. However, from a genealogical standpoint, they aren't necessary, most records are in Latin, Hungarian, and sometimes German. I think this link has been given before, it has common genealogical English, Hungarian, and Latin words; and the Slovak "headings" (e.g., baptism = krsteni'): http://www.bmi.net/jjaso//index.html Dr. "Q" Donna Przecha wrote: > I have been able to find word lists and letter writing guides for > Hungarian, Polish, German, Spanish, etc. but not for Slovakian. Is there > any web site that will provide some basics? (What is correct Slovak, > Slovakian, Slavic?) > > Donna