NOVE ZAMKY, Slovakia — In a borderless European Union that boasts 23 official languages, one member, Slovakia, has enacted a law that limits the use of the languages of some fellow EU members. The ...

Ľudovít Štúr (1815–1856), a revolutionary politician and codifier of the Slovak language, continues to resonate in the 21st century, as evidenced by the success of a new feature film bearing his name.

Jordan Banasik, a third-generation Slovak American, remembers a childhood in which language was both inheritance and liability. Raised by a mother fluent in Slovak, he once spoke it easily — until ...