István Lanstyák Language Problems of the Hungarian Speech Community in Slovakia

The paper deals with three grievous language problems, which have been present in the community of Hungarians in Slovakia for a long time and which will probably persist in the future, although they do not seem to be unsolvable. The problems are presented by Katalin Misad (2009). The first issue she specifically deals with in her book, is the problem of the language for specific purposes used by the Hungarian community in Slovakia; the second – the problem of mother tongue teaching in the schools with Hungarian as the language of instruction; the third – the problem of the second language teaching, again, in the schools with Hungarian as the language of instruction. The aim of this paper – as well as of the book it is based on – is to contribute to the handling of these problems.