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

Zuzana Mészárosová-Lamplová

Graph 4

Dominant communication language of ethnic Hungarians in mixed marriages nowadays

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Between Between Between partner Among children

respondent and respondent and and children partner children

In homogeneous marriages of ethnic Hungarians, the principal language of family communication nowadays is significantly determined by the language of instruction used in primary schools attended by individual respondents. If they attended Hungarian primary schools, the dominance of Hungarian as the language of family communication is uncontested; if they attended Slovak primary schools, the dominance of Hungarian is strongly undermined (please see Graph 5).

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