About Slovene Language | Slovene | Alphabets in Slovene

Countries

European Union, Slovenia

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 13 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Austria, Hungary, Italy

Regulated By

Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Interesting Facts

The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.

Similar To

Serbo-Croatian

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 7 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 10 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 1 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Halo

Thank You

Hvala

How Are You?

Kako se imate?

Good Night

Lahko noč

Good Evening

Dober večer

Good Afternoon

Dober dan

Good Morning

Dobro jutro

Please

Prosim

Sorry

Oprostite

Bye

Nasvidenje

I Love You

Ljubim te

Excuse Me

Oprostite

Dialects

Dialect 1

Prekmurje Slovene

Where They Speak

Hungary, Slovenia

How Many People Speak

80,000.00

Rank: 80 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Resian

Where They Speak

Italy

How Many People Speak

2,500,000.00

Rank: 53 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Styrian

Where They Speak

Slovenia

How Many People Speak

2,500,000.00

Rank: 46 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 31 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

2.50 million

Rank: 78 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.03 %

Rank: 60 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

2.50 million

Rank: 75 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million

Rank: 57 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Slovenščina

Alternative Names

Slovenian, Slovenscina

French Name

slovène

German Name

Slowenisch

Pronunciation

[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]

Ethnicity

Slovenes

History

Origin

972-1093

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Slovene

Language Position

Rank: 26 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Slovene Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

slv

ISO 639 2/B

slv

ISO 639 3

slv

ISO 639 6

slv

Glottocode

slov1268

Linguasphere

53-AAA-f

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional

Know Alphabets in Slovene

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Slovene Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Slovene Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Slovene. Slovene phonology gives Slovene vowels and Slovene consonants. There are 5 vowels and 20 consonants in Slovene language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Slovene is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Slovene language is given in detail in this section.

All Slovene countries

Want to explore all Slovene countries? About Slovene language serves you with all Slovene Speaking Countries. Countries that use Slovene as official language are called as Slovene countries.

Countries that use Slovene as their National Language are: Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Slovene as second language are: Slovene is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Slovene greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Slovene Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Slovene language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Slovene language.Learn Slovene greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Halo
Thank you: Hvala
Good Morning: Dobro jutro
Good Evening: Dober večer
Good Afternoon: Dober dan

All Slovene Language Codes

Get to know all Slovene language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Slovene Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.