A Language Digest of Slovenian and its History



Here is an article about what is Slovenian, who speaks it, and some interesting facts about this language:


What language is Slovenian? 

Slovenian language is also known as, Slove, Slovenski Jezik, or Slovenščina is Indo-European, Balto-Slavic, Slavic, South Slavic language. 


Who speaks Slovenian? 

Slovenian is spoken by around 2.5 million people as of 2010. This language is primarily spoken in the Republic of Slovenia. It is also recognized as a minority language in Austria and Italy.


What are the closest languages to Slovenian?

Because Slovenian is a South Slavic language, other languages from the same group will be understood largely (although by no means are they mutually intelligible). Other languages close to Slovenian (in a broad sense) are Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Bosnian. Also that Russian, Belorussian, Czech, and other Slavic languages are similar to Slovenian. Though they are within the same language family, their sub-families are pretty different.


About the Slovenian Language Structure

When it comes to cases and word order, generally speaking, Slovenian follows the Subject-Verb-Object word order. However, cases can theoretically allow for movement between sentence units, although most of the time, like Lithuanian, Slovene speakers will stick to their standard word order.


One interesting grammatical feature of Slovenian is the presence of dual-grammar usage. In English we have two ways of expressing plurality: “you” and “you all/y’all (colq.)” However, with Slovenian, we add the ‘dual’ form; it would be something like “you (two),” indicating a pair/duality.


Slovenian is written from left to right in the Latin alphabet script and has 20 consonants, 5 vowels, and 25 letters.


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