Countries
European Union, Slovenia
  
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
  
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy
  
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
  
Interesting Facts
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
  
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
  
Similar To
Serbo-Croatian
  
Czech Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Czech-Slovak Language
  
Alphabets in
Slovene-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Slovak-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
Ahoj
  
Thank You
Hvala
  
Ďakujem vám
  
How Are You?
Kako se imate?
  
Ako sa máte?
  
Good Night
Lahko noč
  
Dobrú noc
  
Good Evening
Dober večer
  
Dobrý večer
  
Good Afternoon
Dober dan
  
Dobré popoludnie
  
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
  
Dobré ráno
  
Please
Prosim
  
Prosím
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
Pardón!
  
Bye
Nasvidenje
  
Dovidenia
  
I Love You
Ljubim te
  
Ľúbim Ťa
  
Excuse Me
Oprostite
  
Prepáčte!
  
Dialect 1
Prekmurje Slovene
  
Eastern Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Hungary, Slovenia
  
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Resian
  
Central Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
  
Dialect 3
Styrian
  
Western Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Slovenia
  
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
  
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
Not available
  
slovenčina
  
Alternative Names
Slovenian, Slovenscina
  
Slovakian, Slovencina
  
French Name
slovène
  
slovaque
  
German Name
Slowenisch
  
Slowakisch
  
Pronunciation
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Slovenes
  
Slovaks
  
Origin
972-1093
  
6th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Slovene
  
Slovak
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sl
  
sk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
slv
  
slk
  
ISO 639 2/B
slv
  
slo
  
ISO 639 3
slv
  
slk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
slov1268
  
slov1269
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-f
  
53-AAA-db
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Synthetic
  
Slovene and Slovak 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 Slovak greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Slovene and Slovak language. Slovene word for "Hello" is Halo or Slovak word for "Thank You" is Ďakujem vám. Find more of such common Slovene Greetings and Slovak Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Slovene vs Slovak Difficulty
The Slovene vs Slovak difficulty level basically depends on the number of Slovene Alphabets and Slovak 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 Slovak are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Slovene and Slovak, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Slovene is 44 weeks while to learn Slovak time required is 44 weeks.