Slovenian, also called Slovene, is a South Slavic language of the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European family, spoken by about 2.5 million people, most of them ethnic Slovenes living in Slovenia. As Slovenia is a member of the European Union, Slovenian is one of the union's 24 official and working languages, and its grammar retains a dual grammatical number, an archaic feature shared with only a few other Indo-European languages.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count RegionSlovenia; minorities in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy 2 Classification
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Difficulty for an English Speaker Slovenian
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Source Slovene language (Wikipedia)
Source Slovene language (Wikipedia)
Written In
Slovenian is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.
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Original Language Of
Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.
Source France Prešeren (Wikipedia)Infobox: languageQuote, Infobox: language
Primarily Slovene, some works in German.
Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.
Source Ivan Cankar (Wikipedia)Lead [original-language]Quote, Lead [original-language]
is regarded as the greatest writer in Slovene
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Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Sources
1. Glottolog: Slovenian (Glottolog languoid slov1268)
GlottologEndangerment, AES statusQuote, Endangerment, AES status
AES status: not endangered
2. Slovene language (Wikipedia)
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Opening paragraph
Most of its 2.5 million speakers are the inhabitants of Slovenia
Geographic distribution
mainly in Slovenia, but also by Slovene ethnolinguistic minorities in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
Lead section
As Slovenia is part of the European Union, Slovene is also one of its 24 official and working languages. Its grammar is highly fusional, and it has a dual grammatical number, an archaic feature shared with some other Indo-European languages.
In Family: Balto-Slavic, Infobox, Language family
Balto-Slavic
In Family: South Slavic, Infobox, Language family
South Slavic
View the Source3. WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures): Slovene / Order of Subject, Object and Verb (WALS datapoint)
WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures)Datapoint pageQuote, Datapoint page
Feature: Order of Subject, Object and Verb by Matthew S. Dryer Value: SVO
4. Effective Language Learning: Language Difficulty Ranking
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Category IV: 44 weeks (1100 hours) Languages with significant linguistic and/or cultural differences from English Albanian Amharic Armenian Azerbaijani Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Burmese Croatian Czech * Estonian * Finnish * Georgian Greek Hebrew Hindi * Hungarian Icelandic Khmer Lao Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian * Mongolian Nepali Pashto Persian (Dari, Farsi, Tajik) Polish Russian Serbian Sinhala Slovak Slovenian
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