Petőcz Kálmán (szerk.): National Populism and Slovak - Hungarian Relations in Slovakia 2006-2009 (Somorja, 2009)

Zsuzsanna Mészáros-Lampl: Magyars and Slovaks in Southern Slovakia - Exercising Language Rights

Magyars and Slovaks in Southern Slovakia... Graph 1 Dominant family communication language of the Slovaks in the past maďarský skôr maďarský 4% Respondents of Hungarian nationality may also be divided in two catego­ries in terms of the dominant language of family communication. Naturally, most of them (97%) grew up in a family environment where Hungarian was spoken exclusively or predominantly; four in five of these respondents (80%) spoke Hungarian exclusively while one in six of them (17%) spoke it prevailingly. On the other hand, only three percent of ethnic Hungarian respondents identified Slovak as the dominant language of family commu­nication (please see Graph 2). 169 Legend (top down): Slovak, preferably Slovak, preferably Hungarian, Hungarian

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