Countries
European Union, Slovenia
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Interesting Facts
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
  
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
Similar To
Serbo-Croatian
  
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
Slovene-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
Hvala
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
Kako se imate?
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
Lahko noč
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
Dober večer
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
Dober dan
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
Prosim
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
Nasvidenje
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
Ljubim te
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
Oprostite
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Prekmurje Slovene
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Hungary, Slovenia
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Resian
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Styrian
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Slovenia
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
1,051.00 million
  
2
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
Not available
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Slovenian, Slovenscina
  
Not Available
  
French Name
slovène
  
chinois
  
German Name
Slowenisch
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
  
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Ethnicity
Slovenes
  
Han
  
Origin
972-1093
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
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Branch
Not Available
  
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Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Slovene
  
Standard Chinese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sl
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
slv
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
slv
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
slv
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
slov1268
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-f
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Slovene and Chinese 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 Slovene and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Slovene and Chinese language. Slovene word for "Hello" is Halo or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Slovene Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Slovene vs Chinese Difficulty
The Slovene vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Slovene Alphabets and Chinese 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 Slovene and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Slovene and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Slovene is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.