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Countries

Countries

European Union, Slovenia
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

27
0 46
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National Language

Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Austria, Hungary, Italy
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Council for German Orthography

Interesting Facts

  • The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
  • The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Serbo-Croatian
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

-
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2526
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

209
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

26
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Halo
hallo

Thank You

Hvala
Danke

How Are You?

Kako se imate?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

Lahko noč
gute Nacht

Good Evening

Dober večer
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

Dober dan
guten Tag

Good Morning

Dobro jutro
guten Morgen

Please

Prosim
bitte

Sorry

Oprostite
Verzeihung

Bye

Nasvidenje
Tschüs

I Love You

Ljubim te
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

Oprostite
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Prekmurje Slovene
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Hungary, Slovenia
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

80,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Resian
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Italy
Germany

How Many People Speak

2,500,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Styrian
Texas German

Where They Speak

Slovenia
Texas

How Many People Speak

2,500,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

4828
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

2.50 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.03 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

2.50 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Slovenščina
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Slovenian, Slovenscina
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

slovène
allemand

German Name

Slowenisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Slovenes
Germans

History

Origin

972-1093
6th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Germanic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Slovene
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

289
1 120
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Signed Forms

Slovene Sign Language
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sl
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

slv
deu

ISO 639 2/B

slv
ger

ISO 639 3

slv
deu

ISO 639 6

slv
deus

Glottocode

slov1268
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

53-AAA-f
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic

Slovene and German Alphabets

Slovene and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Slovene and German. In Slovene Alphabets there are 25 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Slovene and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Slovene and German 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 German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Slovene and German are Most Spoken Languages.

All Slovene and German 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 German dialects. Various dialects of Slovene and German language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Slovene are spoken in different Slovene Speaking Countries whereas German Dialects are spoken in different German speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Slovene vs German Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Slovene dialects include: Prekmurje Slovene, Resian. German dialects include: Swiss German , Swabian German. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Slovene and German Speaking population

Slovene and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Slovene and German languages can be compared. The total count of Slovene and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Slovene language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Slovene vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Slovene and German Language Codes

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