The use of standard and regional varieties among Hungarian secondary school students in Slovakia

Abstract This study presents the findings of a study of the use of the mother tongue by Hungarian-speaking secondary school students in Slovakia who are members of a minority group. In the course of our questionnaire survey, we investigated the use of two varieties of the Hungarian language, the standard Hungarian variety and the regional Hungarian varieties spoken in Slovakia. The results of the survey, conducted with the assistance of 13 educational institutions and 793 respondents, demonstrate whether Hungarian secondary school students in Slovakia perceive a distinction between the Hungarian varieties used in Hungary and Slovakia, in which communicative contexts they perceive themselves to employ them, and to what extent they self-report their familiarity and recognition of the varieties.