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
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Where They Speak
Italy
Olonets
Dialect 3
Styrian
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Slovenia
Novgorod
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
slov1268
russ1263
Linguasphere
53-AAA-f
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic
Slovene and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Slovene and Russian language. Slovene word for "Hello" is Halo or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Slovene Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Slovene vs Russian Difficulty
The Slovene vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Slovene Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Slovene and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Slovene is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.