Have you heard of ‘bachter‘ and ‘túrnó‘? In case you are curious of their meanings and what region the words are used, a new application Mapka is here for you. Mapka offers a map with recordings of various dialects. Please watch the short video and find out more! The video is available on our YouTube…

March has been designated as National Reading Month since 1955, in commemoration of the Slovak patriot and linguist Matej Hrebenda Hačavský. On the occasion of The Year of Ľudovít Štúr and March as National Reading Month we offer you a poster with the most frequent collocates of the word kniha (‘book‘) from the main corpus…

We are happy that the new map of dialects is a source of so much interest! We were wondering which sound recordings had been played most. Here is the list: The application has been developed by the Slovak National Corpus Department in cooperation with the experts on Slovak dialectology. The application is available here.

Do you know in which dialects the consonant ‘dz’ can be found? Please watch the short video on searching for words containing ‘dz’ in the Corpus of Dialects of the Slovak National Corpus. The video is available on our YouTube channel, or Facebook webpage. It also can be found here.