Countries
European Union, Slovenia
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Serbo-Croatian
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Slovene-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Hvala
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Kako se imate?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Lahko noč
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Dober večer
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Dober dan
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Prosim
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Nasvidenje
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Ljubim te
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Oprostite
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Prekmurje Slovene
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Hungary, Slovenia
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Dialect 2
Resian
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Styrian
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Slovenia
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Not available
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Slovenian, Slovenscina
  
Russki
  
French Name
slovène
  
russe
  
German Name
Slowenisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Slovenes
  
Russians
  
Origin
972-1093
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Slovene
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sl
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
slv
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
slv
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
slv
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
slov1268
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-f
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic