Talk:Slovaks

message: Is it necessary to include (the most urbanized part, intense mining of gold and silver) for Slovakia being the most advanced part of the Kingdom of Hungary - is there a source maybe or just a better reason? HotelRoom 22:26, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Better Reasons

message: The Slovak language is the official language of Vojvodina, making the Slovaks one of the 6 linguistic groups in that Serbian province. I think that it should be stated in the article... --HolyRomanEmperor 15:23, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vojvodina 

message: An anonymous user inserted an unclear sentence about proto-Slovaks into the section on contemporary Slovaks. The addition was completely unsourced (and tagged as such). It also made a claim that the current government coalition is far right, which contradicts the fact that the governing party is a socialist party. I removed that text. If anyone wants to reinsert it, please find reliable sources for it and put it where it belongs. It certainly does not belong to the section on contemporary Slovaks. Tankred (talk) 02:19, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: proto-Slovaks

message: The edits of user: Wizzard are falsifications: Jedlik and Benyovszky were Hungarians with (perhaps?) Slovak ancestors. Calling and adding them as slovaks is POV pushing. Please check: Talk:Ányos Jedlik, and Talk:Maurice Benyovszky.Baxter9 (talk) 14:55, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely no, but I changed that image. --Wizzard (talk) 16:56, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Disputed

message: "Slovaks also have significant Hungarian (Magyar) roots." Somebody must be kidding here. Please provide reasoning, or I suggest deleting.
Slovaks have one of the highest asiatic haplogroup markers in Europe.
Do the Slovaks claim this themselves? Small genetic markers hardly make for "significant" roots. --Luftschiffritter5 1 (talk) 07:53, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Slovaks 

message: Poland (2002) (47 000 / 2 000*) [* The Central Census Commission has accepted the objection of the Association of Slovaks in Poland with respect to this number ]- ancient minority and due to border shifts during the 20th century Does anybody have a source for this? Hrcolyer (talk) 16:53, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slovaks in Poland 

message: The genetic reality of present-day Slovaks is important.
http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2008/01/mtdna-of-slovaks.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.111.184.193 (talk) 11:25, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: what is Mongoloid "Haplogropup M"?
Y-chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) haplogroup asiatic N1c1: Slovakia (0.5%) and Hungary (1%)
slavic R1a: Slovakia (42%) and Hungary (32.5%)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omen1229 (talk • contribs) 22:26, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

text: R1a is not Slavic. This is the "steppe" haplogroup. Peoples from Eastern Europe have this. From Bohemia to Kazakhstan (Hungarians as well, Hungarian 'homeland' was situated southwards from Ural).Moreover this haplogroup came from Middle-East. See:Haplogroup R1a (Y-DNA). Around 80-85 % of Old Hungarians had europid character. The rest of them was Europo-mongolid. Fakirbakir (talk) 23:38, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

text: And? Ukraine 4%, Sweden 3%
Q is found predominantly in Central Siberia, Central Asia and among Native Americans. In the latter case it is the specific subclade Q1a3a.
One hypothesis is that Q came to Europe with the Huns in the 5th century. The Huns are thought to have originated from Central Siberia, where haplogroup Q is still common nowadays. Q is found in 2% of the people in Hungary and up to 5% in isolated pockets in the mountains of Slovakia, just north of Hungary. It is historically attested that Hungary was were most of the Hunnic invaders finally settled after wreaking havoc around Europe. The Nordic and Baltic states have the second highest frequency of Q in Europe. Based on the Hunnic hypothesis, it is possible that a group of Huns settled in Sweden and/or Norway along with their allies, the Goths. The Romans reported that the Huns consisted of a small ruling elite and their armies comprised mostly of Germanic warriors. An alternative scenario is that Nordic and Baltic Q came through the Uralic-speaking population of Siberia via Finland and Lappland, but this is unlikely because Q is not more common in Finland and does not correlate with the densities of the Uralic haplogroup N1c1.
Other Central Asian or Siberian migrations might have brought Q to Ukraine in the late Antiquity or Medieval period. For instance, the multi-ethnic Central Asian troops of Genghis Khan could very well have carried some haplogroup Q (along with C, G, O and R1a) to Eastern Europe, but not to Central Europe or Scandinavia.--Omen1229 (talk) 10:18, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

text: I recommend the newest R1a1a1-z280 researches (in connection with Hungarians). I wrote a bit about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hungarian_people#Fenno-Ugric_ethnic_group_native_toFakirbakir (talk) 12:12, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Slovak genetic background

message: I think the part of the sentence in the introductory paragraph stating that the Slovak and Serb (sic) languages are closely related should be deleted (unless Serb should say Sorb). Slovak and Czech tongues are obviously closly related, but the relationship with the Serbian language is not significantly greater than to any other Slavic tongue. --Luftschiffritter5 1 (talk) 07:50, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Serb language

message: János Karácsonyi´s obsolete theories from 19. century (in the period of Magyarization) are not relevant to the article. His opinions not represent a worldwide view. He is unknown person in Slovakia and (maybe) popular only in Hungary.
Plus his picture (as Hungarian person) in the article about Slovaks is absolutely illogical.--Omen1229 (talk) 08:27, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  János Karácsonyi (1858 - 1929)  

message: It looks like there are many references here now  (there are 43 inline citations).  Does anyone object to me removing the references needed tag?--MLKLewis (talk) 01:52, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing Citations Needed Tag 

message: According to controversial historian Kamusella, "there is no continuity in politics, culture, or written language between this early Slavic polity and the modern Slovak nation." In fact denial of the continuity of the Slavs living in the territory of what is today Slovakia (before the eleventh century and those who have been living there since the eleventh century) is (also) incorrect. In particular the oldest local names in a written form can serve as evidence. On the basis of the known development of the (Slovak) language these names can serve for determining the time of their formation (before the thirteenth century; in the tenth century or before the tenth century). Therefore it should be adequate to deal with the ethnogenesis of Slovaks in more detail.
"no continuity in politics, culture, or written language" > A constitution is a set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed. Constitution of the Slovak Republic: We, the Slovak nation, mindful of the political and cultural heritage of our forebears, and of the centuries of experience from the struggle for national existence and our own statehood, in the sense of the spiritual heritage of Cyril and Methodius and the historical legacy of the Great Moravian Empire, proceeding from the natural right of nations to self-determination...
Christianity came to Slovak area in early ninth century. Christianize the Slavs began Frankish Latin rite priests. Saints Cyril and Methodius in 863 brought into the territory of Great Moravia, they began the task of translating the Bible into the language now known as Old Church Slavonic, the tradition of the Eastern Churches of Byzantine rite, respecting the Western tradition, as evidenced by the Byzantine liturgical books translated, and the Latin rite in Old Slavonic.  The Byzantine rite is still preserved in Slovakia, mainly in eastern Slovakia.
Slovak banknotes were with prince Pribina and Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius. Cyrilo-Methodian motif has its stable place in the creation process of means of payment and money in Slovakia. However, there are not only motifs with religious or sacral subject matters. Considering multidimension – not only religious, but also humanistic, cultural, social, political, educational and scientific – importance of Sts. Cyril and Methodius’ missions, their portraits are traditionally depicted on medals, too, as these are related to the above mentioned fields of human activities. This fact aptly illustrates the importance of our ancestors’ teachers whose humanistic message is still alive and topical in the present time.  s.236
Slovak holidays are based on the tradition and Slovak history. 5th of July, Memory of St. Cyril and St. Methodius – Brothers Cyril and Methodius compiled the Slavic alphabet and translated it into liturgical and biblical texts. They established several schools and training centers. One of the universities in Slovakia, in Trnava, is called Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda (University of Sts. Cyril and Methodius).
Also pagan elements may still be found in many demonstrations of folk culture, forming part of Slovak folklore even to the present day.
Obsolete theories state that the indigenous Slavs of Great Moravia have died out... Regardless of the fact that modern historical and archaeological exploration in the last decades showed the opinions of these obsolete theories to be wrong. --Omen1229 (talk) 14:26, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Congratulation on bringing here opinion of nationalistic scholar which is not shared by any other. Now what was your point? EllsworthSK (talk) 21:20, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kamusella and "no continuity" 

message: For now, I've deleted the entire section on genetics. Absolutely no other article on an ethnic group on Wikipedia includes such a section. Why should the article on Slovaks be different ? Oh wait, right ! Because a bunch of Jobbik sympathizers or other ultranationalist loons keep vandalizing it and reposting this trite old spam piece of racial profiling again and again. That article on genetics research has not been properly sourced, contains cherry-picked facts that support the racist fantasies of a small group of Hungarian chauvinists and has been making rounds on the internet for years now. Why is it included on Wikipedia ? If it's really so absolutely necessary to include a section on the genetics of the Slovak population, then by all means, do it - but do it properly and stop circulating the same pseudoscientific crank news endlessly and everywhere. --ZemplinTemplar (talk) 16:05, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section on genetics little more than vehicle for perpetuating racist/nationalist rhetoric 

message: I invite everybody to post their opinions at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ethnic_groups#The_necessity_of_galleries_of_personalities_in_the_infoboxes Hahun (talk) 11:38, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: RfC can be found here Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups#Proposal for the deletion of all the galleries of personalities from the articles about ethnic groups. Gerard von Hebel (talk) 02:23, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The gallery of personalities from the infobox 

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message: It is currently being proposed that Category:Slavic countries and territories be deleted. This article is related to that category. The relevant discussion is located at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 January 8#Countries and territories by language family. The discussion would benefit from input from editors with a knowledge of and interest in Slovaks. Krakkos (talk) 11:13, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
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