%0 Journal Article
%T Slavic languages in contact, 4: Turkic in Slovak – A short note
%A Stachowski, Marek
%J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
%V 2020
%R 10.4467/20834624SL.20.015.12720
%N Volume 137, Issue 3
%P 199-203
%K Slavic languages, Slovak language, Turkish language, etymology, areal linguistics
%@ 1897-1059
%D 2020
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/slavic-languages-in-contact-4-turkic-in-slovak-a-short-note
%X 
	Slovak has never had especially intense contacts with Turkish or any other Turkic lan­guage. This author tries to show that loanwords called “Turkisms in Slovak” neverthe­less call for more attention and research than one might initially think as well as that, indeed, there possibly exist a few words borrowed directly from Turkish into Slovak. These words may, at least sometimes, reflect an old colloquial pronunciation variant in the speech of Turkish soldiers and are, thus, a Slovak contribution to investigation into Turkish linguistic history.