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Slovene

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Countries

Countries

European Union, Slovenia
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia

Total No. Of Countries

29
0 46
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National Language

Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
Austria

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Austria, Hungary, Italy
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania

Regulated By

Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

Interesting Facts

  • The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
  • The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.

Similar To

Serbo-Croatian
Serbain and Bosnian

Derived From

-
Church Slavonic

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2530
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2025
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

23
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Halo
bok

Thank You

Hvala
hvala

How Are You?

Kako se imate?
kako si

Good Night

Lahko noč
laku noć

Good Evening

Dober večer
dobra večer

Good Afternoon

Dober dan
dobar dan

Good Morning

Dobro jutro
dobro jutro

Please

Prosim
molim

Sorry

Oprostite
Oprostite

Bye

Nasvidenje
Doviđenja

I Love You

Ljubim te
Volim te

Excuse Me

Oprostite
Ispričavam se

Dialects

Dialect 1

Prekmurje Slovene
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Hungary, Slovenia
Croatia

How Many People Speak

80,000.00660,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Resian
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Italy
Croatia

How Many People Speak

2,500,000.005,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Styrian
Shtokavian

Where They Speak

Slovenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania

How Many People Speak

2,500,000.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

4879
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

2.50 million89.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %89.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

2.50 million5.60 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million1.25 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Slovenščina
hrvatski

Alternative Names

Slovenian, Slovenscina
Hrvatski

French Name

slovène
croate

German Name

Slowenisch
Kroatisch

Pronunciation

[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]

Ethnicity

Slovenes
Croats

History

Origin

972-1093
9th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Slovene
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian

Language Position

2823
1 120
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Signed Forms

Slovene Sign Language
Croatian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sl
hr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

slv
hrv

ISO 639 2/B

slv
hrv

ISO 639 3

slv
hrv

ISO 639 6

slv
hrv

Glottocode

slov1268
croa1245

Linguasphere

53-AAA-f
part of 53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
-

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic

Slovene and Croatian Alphabets

Slovene and Croatian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Slovene and Croatian. In Slovene Alphabets there are 25 letters while in Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Slovene and Croatian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Slovene and Croatian languages. The Slovene phonology consist Slovene vowels and Slovene consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Slovene greetings vs Croatian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Slovene and Croatian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Slovene and Croatian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Slovene and Croatian dialects. Various dialects of Slovene and Croatian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Slovene are spoken in different Slovene Speaking Countries whereas Croatian Dialects are spoken in different Croatian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Slovene vs Croatian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Slovene dialects include: Prekmurje Slovene, Resian. Croatian dialects include: Chakavian , Chakavian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Slovene and Croatian Speaking population

Slovene and Croatian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Slovene and Croatian languages can be compared. The total count of Slovene and Croatian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Slovene language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Slovene and Croatian on Slovene vs Croatian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Slovene and Croatian Language Codes

Slovene and Croatian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Slovene and Croatian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.