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