Language
Languages of Slovenia
Slovenia. 2,039,399. National or official languages: Slovenian, Hungarian, Italian. Literacy rate: 98%. Also includes Croatian (155,013), Gheg Albanian (4,022), Macedonian (4,603), Sinte Romani (2,847), Standard German (1,543), Venetian. Information mainly from M. Stephens 1976: B. Comrie 1987; T. Priestley 1995; W. Browne 1996. The number of languages listed for Slovenia is 4. Of those, all are living languages.
Hungarian
[hun] 9,240 in Slovenia (1991 census). Eastern Slovenia. Alternate names: Magyar. Classification: Uralic, Finno-Ugric, Ugric, Hungarian.
Italian
[ita] 4,009 in Slovenia (1991 census). Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Italo-Dalmatian.
Slovenian
[slv] 1,727,360 in Slovenia (1991 census). Population total all countries: 1,984,775. Carniola and southern parts of Styria and Carinthia; Lower Carniola in Dolenjsko, Upper Carniola in Gorenjska, Primorski in West Slovenia, Stajerski in Styria. Also spoken in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Serbia and Montenegro, USA. Alternate names: Slovenscina, Slovene. Dialects: Lower Carniola, Upper Carniola, Stajerski, Primorski, Prekmurski. The literary dialect is between the two main dialects, based on Dolenjsko. Dialects are diverse. Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, South, Western.
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Slovenia. 2,039,399. National or official languages: Slovenian, Hungarian, Italian. Literacy rate: 98%. Also includes Croatian (155,013), Gheg Albanian (4,022), Macedonian (4,603), Sinte Romani (2,847), Standard German (1,543), Venetian. Information mainly from M. Stephens 1976: B. Comrie 1987; T. Priestley 1995; W. Browne 1996. The number of languages listed for Slovenia is 4. Of those, all are living languages.
Living languages
Hungarian
[hun] 9,240 in Slovenia (1991 census). Eastern Slovenia. Alternate names: Magyar. Classification: Uralic, Finno-Ugric, Ugric, Hungarian.
Italian
[ita] 4,009 in Slovenia (1991 census). Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Italo-Dalmatian.
Slovenian
[slv] 1,727,360 in Slovenia (1991 census). Population total all countries: 1,984,775. Carniola and southern parts of Styria and Carinthia; Lower Carniola in Dolenjsko, Upper Carniola in Gorenjska, Primorski in West Slovenia, Stajerski in Styria. Also spoken in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Serbia and Montenegro, USA. Alternate names: Slovenscina, Slovene. Dialects: Lower Carniola, Upper Carniola, Stajerski, Primorski, Prekmurski. The literary dialect is between the two main dialects, based on Dolenjsko. Dialects are diverse. Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, South, Western.
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