Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
European Union, Slovenia
  
National Language
Germany
  
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Serbo-Croatian
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Slovene-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Hvala
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Kako se imate?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Lahko noč
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Dober večer
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Dober dan
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Dobro jutro
  
Please
bitte
  
Prosim
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Nasvidenje
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Ljubim te
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Oprostite
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Prekmurje Slovene
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Hungary, Slovenia
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Resian
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Italy
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Styrian
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Slovenia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
2.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
Not available
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Slovenian, Slovenscina
  
French Name
allemand
  
slovène
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Slowenisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Slovenes
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
972-1093
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Slovene
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
sl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
slv
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
slv
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
slv
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
slov1268
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
53-AAA-f
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
German and Slovene Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where German and Slovene greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Slovene language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Slovene word for "Thank You" is Hvala. Find more of such common German Greetings and Slovene Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Slovene Difficulty
The German vs Slovene difficulty level basically depends on the number of German Alphabets and Slovene Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare German and Slovene are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Slovene, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Slovene time required is 44 weeks.