- Publishing Information
- Editorial Staff
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Contributors and Consultants for the First and Second Editions
- General Introduction
- Native American Family Names
- African American Family Names
- English, Scottish, and Anglo-Irish Family Names
- Irish and Scottish Gaelic Family Names
- Welsh Family Names
- French Family Names
- Breton Family Names
- German Family Names
- Dutch Family Names
- Scandinavian Family Names
- Finnish and Estonian Family Names
- Spanish and Portuguese Family Names
- Italian Family Names
- Greek Family Names
- Russian, Ukrainian, and Other Eastern Slavic Family Names
- Latvian and Lithuanian Family Names
- Polish Family Names
- Czech Family Names
- Slovak Family Names
- Slovenian Family Names
- Croatian, Serbian, and Bosniak Family Names
- Hungarian Family Names
- Romanian Family Names
- Jewish Family Names
- African Family Names
- Arabic and Muslim Family Names
- Turkish Family Names
- Iranian Family Names
- Indian Family Names
- Chinese Family Names
- Korean Family Names
- Vietnamese Family Names
- Japanese Family Names
- Filipino Family Names
Slovak Family Names
- Source:
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Author(s):
- Peter ĎurčoPeter Ďurčo
Slovak belongs to the Western branch of Slavic languages, together with Czech, with which it is mutually intelligible, Polish, and also Lower and Upper Sorbian. It is a fusional language with a complex system of morphology and relatively flexible word order. Its alphabet is Latin-based with small modifications that include four diacritics (ˇ, ´, ¨, ˆ) placed above certain letters: ... ...
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- Publishing Information
- Editorial Staff
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Contributors and Consultants for the First and Second Editions
- General Introduction
- Native American Family Names
- African American Family Names
- English, Scottish, and Anglo-Irish Family Names
- Irish and Scottish Gaelic Family Names
- Welsh Family Names
- French Family Names
- Breton Family Names
- German Family Names
- Dutch Family Names
- Scandinavian Family Names
- Finnish and Estonian Family Names
- Spanish and Portuguese Family Names
- Italian Family Names
- Greek Family Names
- Russian, Ukrainian, and Other Eastern Slavic Family Names
- Latvian and Lithuanian Family Names
- Polish Family Names
- Czech Family Names
- Slovak Family Names
- Slovenian Family Names
- Croatian, Serbian, and Bosniak Family Names
- Hungarian Family Names
- Romanian Family Names
- Jewish Family Names
- African Family Names
- Arabic and Muslim Family Names
- Turkish Family Names
- Iranian Family Names
- Indian Family Names
- Chinese Family Names
- Korean Family Names
- Vietnamese Family Names
- Japanese Family Names
- Filipino Family Names