Countries
European Union, Slovenia
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
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
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Interesting Facts
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Serbo-Croatian
Czech Language
Derived From
-
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2546
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
515
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2038
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
Ahoj
Thank You
Hvala
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
Kako se imate?
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
Lahko noč
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
Dober večer
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
Dober dan
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
Dobré ráno
Please
Prosim
Prosím
Sorry
Oprostite
Pardón!
Bye
Nasvidenje
Dovidenia
I Love You
Ljubim te
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
Oprostite
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
Prekmurje Slovene
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
Hungary, Slovenia
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
80,000.005,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Resian
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
Italy
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Styrian
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
Slovenia
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.005,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
484
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million5.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
2.50 million5.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Slovenščina
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Slovenian, Slovenscina
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
slovène
slovaque
German Name
Slowenisch
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
[ˈsləʊvæk]
Ethnicity
Slovenes
Slovaks
Origin
972-1093
6th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Slovene
Slovak
Language Position
2827
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovene Sign Language
Slovak Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sl
sk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slv
slk
ISO 639 2/B
slv
slo
ISO 639 3
slv
slk
ISO 639 6
slv
slk
Glottocode
slov1268
slov1269
Linguasphere
53-AAA-f
53-AAA-db
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic