O slovenčine a konfesionalizme Slovákov
On Slovak language and Slovaks‘ confessionalism

Summary/Abstract: The cultural language of the West Slovak Trnava region represents mainly the Catholic line of Slovak national and cultural development, it can be considered as an important stage of fulfilling the needs of Slovak society in the pre-codification period of the cultural development of Slovaks. This process of application of the cultivated national language in Bible translation was also realized in other Slavic nations and is closely related to the codification processes of Slavic national languages. The Slovak confessional development of the second half of the 18th century was also influenced by the struggle for the literary form of the Slovak language. Although language is a national-identifying attribute of a nation, the linguistic diversity of monuments associated with Slovakia, especially the place of their origin, also depends on the linguistic-cultural traditions of the diverse Slovak confessional communities. This linguistic diversity of monuments, however, only proves the multiplicity of the cultural-confessional development of the Slovaks and their linguistic-confessional traditions. The convergent development of the national Slovak language is proof of its function as a unifying means of communication.

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