Slovene
South Slavic language spoken primarily in Slovenia
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Summary
Slovene is a natural language[1]. Slovene draws 7,284 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #76 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Slovenia[3], Austria[4], Italy[5], Hungary[6], Croatia[7], Germany[8], United States[9], Canada[10], Argentina[11], South Africa[12]
- Instance of: modern language[13]
- Subclass of: Western South Slavic[14]
- Writing system: Latin script[15], Glagolitic[16]
- Commons category: Slovene language[17]
- Wikimedia language code: sl[18]
- Topic's main category: Category:Slovene language[19]
- Language regulatory body: Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts[20]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 2,400,000[21]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[22], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24]
- Native label: slovenski jezik[25], slovenščina[26]
- Short name: словенский[27], словенська[28], славенская[29], slovencə[30], словенски[31], slovinština[32], словенаг[33]
- Different from: Slovak[34], Slovincian[35]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[36]
- Indigenous to: Carinthia[37], Styria[38], Zala County[39], Province of Gorizia[40], Province of Trieste[41], Province of Udine[42], Slovenia[43]
- Female form of label: la langue slovène[44]
- Studied by: Slovene studies[45]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SLV[46]
- Has grammatical case: nominative case[47]
Why It Matters
Slovene has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[48] Slovene is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[49]