Editing Slovak language (section)

==History==
{{Main|History of the Slovak language}}
The Czech–Slovak group developed within West Slavic in the [[high medieval]] period, and the standardization of Czech and Slovak within the Czech–Slovak dialect continuum emerged in the early modern period. In the later mid-19th century, the modern [[Slovak alphabet]] and written standard became codified by [[Ľudovít Štúr]] and reformed by [[Martin Hattala]]. The [[Moravian dialects]] spoken in the western part of the country along the border with the [[Czech Republic]] are also sometimes classified as Slovak, although some of their western variants are closer to Czech; they nonetheless form the bridge dialects between the two languages.