Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
European Union, Slovenia
National Language
Russia
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Austria, Hungary, Italy
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Interesting Facts
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Serbo-Croatian
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Halo
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Hvala
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Kako se imate?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Lahko noč
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Dober večer
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Dober dan
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Dobro jutro
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Prosim
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Oprostite
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Nasvidenje
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Ljubim te
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Prekmurje Slovene
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Hungary, Slovenia
Where They Speak
Olonets
Italy
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Styrian
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Slovenia
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
Not available
Alternative Names
Russki
Slovenian, Slovenscina
French Name
russe
slovène
German Name
Russisch
Slowenisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
Ethnicity
Russians
Slovenes
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Not Available
Branch
Eastern
Not Available
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Slovene
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
slov1268
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
53-AAA-f
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional
Russian and Slovene Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Russian and Slovene greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Slovene language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Slovene word for "Thank You" is Hvala. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Slovene Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Slovene Difficulty
The Russian vs Slovene difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Slovene Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Russian and Slovene are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Slovene, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Slovene time required is 44 weeks.