Countries
European Union, Slovenia
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy
Palau
Regulated By
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Serbo-Croatian
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2599
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2014
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Hvala
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Kako se imate?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
Lahko noč
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Dober večer
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Dober dan
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
Prosim
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Oprostite
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Nasvidenje
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Ljubim te
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Oprostite
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Prekmurje Slovene
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Hungary, Slovenia
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
80,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Resian
Hakata
Where They Speak
Italy
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Styrian
Kansai
Where They Speak
Slovenia
kansai
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
4831
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
2.50 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
2.50 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Slovenščina
日本語
Alternative Names
Slovenian, Slovenscina
Nihongo
French Name
slovène
japonais
German Name
Slowenisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Slovenes
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
972-1093
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Slovene
Japanese
Language Position
288
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovene Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sl
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slv
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
slv
jpn
ISO 639 3
slv
jpn
ISO 639 6
slv
jpn
Glottocode
slov1268
nucl1643
Linguasphere
53-AAA-f
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic