1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Slovenia
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy
Botswana, Lesotho
1.7 Regulated By
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
1.9 Similar To
Serbo-Croatian
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Dober večer
Ubusuku obuhle
3.6 Good Afternoon
Dober dan
Uben' emva kwemini entle
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Nasvidenje
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Prekmurje Slovene
Gcaleka
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Hungary, Slovenia
South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
80,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
2.50 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
2.50 million8.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Slovenian, Slovenscina
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Slovenes
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Xhosa
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology