# Slovak Translation Services

> Slovak translation services for documents from Slovakia and the Slovak diaspora, by native human translators. Certified for USCIS, with notarization.

https://roxotranslations.com/slovak-translation/

Roxo Translations offers Slovak translation services for documents from Slovakia, from the former Czechoslovakia and from the Slovak communities of the United States, Canada and Europe, to and from English and other languages. Every translation is done by a human translator, native in the target language, and reviewed by a second one, never by machine translation.

Send a photo or scan of the document, see the price and the deadline instantly, and receive the translation as a PDF. For the United States it comes certified and accepted by USCIS, with the signed statement and notarization included.

- Slovak from Slovakia and the diaspora, in both directions
- Certified for USCIS, with notarization included
- Instant online quote and fast delivery

## Where Slovak is spoken and where your translation is accepted

Slovak is the official language of Slovakia and one of the official languages of the European Union, with more than 5 million speakers. It is also one of the official languages of the province of Vojvodina, in Serbia, and is spoken by Slovak minorities in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Romania. From the 1880s, emigration took Slovak to the United States, where Slovak communities grew in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and New Jersey, and later to Canada, and, after Slovakia joined the European Union in 2004, to the United Kingdom and Ireland. The destination decides the type of translation.

| Where | What you need |
|---|---|
| United States: USCIS, courts, universities and employers | [Certified translation](https://roxotranslations.com/certified-translation/) into English, with the signed statement of accuracy and notarization included |
| Brazil: notary offices, universities and public agencies | [Sworn translation](https://roxotranslations.com/pt/traducao-juramentada/) into Portuguese, signed by a public sworn translator and valid nationwide. For Slovak, we confirm before quoting whether it goes through English |
| Slovakia and other countries of the European Union | Ask the receiving authority which format it accepts: we tell you the options before quoting, including the [Hague apostille](https://roxotranslations.com/apostille/) when it applies |
| Slovak consulates, citizenship and civil records | The translation into the language the authority asks for, with the apostille on the original when it is required |

## Slovak language pairs we translate

These are the language pairs with Slovak that we translate today, in both directions.

- Slovak to [Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- Slovak to [English](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- Slovak to [Italian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- Slovak to [Russian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)
- [Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/) to Slovak
- [English](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/) to Slovak
- [Italian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/) to Slovak
- [Russian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/) to Slovak

Need a pair that is not on the list? Talk to us: we answer within one hour, 7 days a week.

## Slovak translation services for Slovakia, Czechoslovakia and the Slovak diaspora

Slovak is one language across Slovakia, close to Czech but with its own letters, words and spelling, and Slovak documents follow their own formats. A good translation keeps every letter of the original and reads naturally to whoever receives it.

- Letters: Slovak is written in the Latin alphabet with marks of its own, such as ä, ô, ľ, ĺ and ŕ, besides č, š, ž, ď, ť and ň, and ch, dz and dž count as single letters. Systems abroad often drop the marks, so Ľudovít Štúr becomes Ludovit Stur and Žilina becomes Zilina, and the translation keeps every letter exactly as in the original.
- Names: most surnames have a female form, so the wife or daughter of Kováč is Kováčová and the female form of Malý is Malá, and some women abroad use the surname without -ová. Records from before 1918 were often kept in Hungarian or Latin, so the same family may appear as Kovács. Tell us the spelling used in your US documents when you order.
- Regions: Slovak has western, central and eastern dialects, and the written standard, codified in the 19th century, is based on the central ones. In the east, around Košice and Prešov, speech puts the stress on the second-to-last syllable, not on the first. Official documents always use standard written Slovak (spisovná slovenčina).
- Dates and numbers: dates are written day, month and year with periods and often spaces, so 3. 10. 2026 is October 3, 2026, and months in words have names close to the English ones, as in 3. októbra 2026. Decimals use a comma and thousands a space, so 1 500,00 is one thousand five hundred.
- Documents: the birth certificate (rodný list), the marriage certificate (sobášny list) and the ID card (občiansky preukaz) carry the birth number (rodné číslo), in which women have 50 added to the month. Documents issued before 1993 often name Czechoslovakia (ČSSR or ČSFR), and older ones the Kingdom of Hungary, with towns such as Pozsony for Bratislava and Kassa for Košice. The translation reproduces every stamp, seal and note.

## The history of the Slovak language

Slovak belongs to the West Slavic branch of the Slavic languages, together with Czech and Polish, and it is the closest language to Czech. In 863, the missionaries Cyril and Methodius arrived in Great Moravia, which covered much of today's Slovakia, and brought Old Church Slavonic to the region. From the 11th century until 1918, the lands of Slovakia belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary, where Latin was the language of the state and the Church for centuries, and Slovak Protestants wrote in the Czech of the Bible of Kralice.

In 1787, the priest Anton Bernolák published the first codification of written Slovak, based on the western dialects. In 1843, Ľudovít Štúr and his circle chose the central dialects as the basis of the written language, and in 1851 a reform by Martin Hattala gave it a form close to the one used today. The Matica slovenská, founded in 1863 in Martin, published Slovak books and became a center of the national culture.

From the 1880s, hundreds of thousands of Slovaks emigrated to the mines and steel mills of Pennsylvania, to Cleveland and to Chicago. Czechoslovakia existed from 1918 to 1992, and on January 1, 1993, Slovakia became independent. Today Slovak has more than 5 million speakers, and the records of those families, many written in Hungarian or Latin, are still translated for immigration, citizenship and genealogy.

## We also translate other languages

- [Latvian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/latvian-translation/)
- [Irish translation](https://roxotranslations.com/irish-translation/)
- [Hungarian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/hungarian-translation/)
- [Estonian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/estonian-translation/)
- [Slovenian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/slovenian-translation/)