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West Carpathian (native name - ''kārpāthirēta'', also ''äthikārpāthirēta'') is one of the three recognized [[Carpathian languages|Carpathian languages]] spoken by the Carpathian people in Slovakia and in three small mountainous regions of Southern Poland. It has approximately 45 000 native speakers according to 2012 census in Slovakia (including speakers of dialects). | West Carpathian (native name - ''kārpāthirēta'', also ''äthikārpāthirēta'') is one of the three recognized [[Carpathian languages|Carpathian languages]] spoken by the Carpathian people in Slovakia and in three small mountainous regions of Southern Poland. It has approximately 45 000 native speakers according to 2012 census in Slovakia (including speakers of dialects). | ||
West | West Carpathian was influenced by West Slavic languages, Polish and Slovak in particular, and also by Hungarian to a lesser extend. Typologically it is between [[w:Fusional language|fusional]] and [[w:Agglutunative language|agglutinative]] languages and is different from surrounding Indo-European languages. It has a complex inflection system for nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs, depending on their roles in the sentence. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
===Ancient history=== | ===Ancient history=== | ||