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Name:
Slovenian
Alternate Names:
Slovene; Slovenscina; Slovenisch; Résien (in French); Resiano (in Spanish)
Spoken in:
USA, Australia, Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Canada, Hungary, Argentina, Austria, Italy
Number of speakers:
1,730,000 in Slovenia (1991 census). Population total all countries: 1,909,050
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
1000
(UNESCO)
Code:
slv
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Subgroup:
Western South Slavic; West South Slavic; Western South Slavonic (wssl)
Child Dialect Groups:
Upper Carniola; Gorenjska baza; Upper Carniolan; Gorenjsko (slv-upp)
Rovte; Rovtarsko (slv-rov)
Carinthian; Koroško (slv-car)
Littoral; Primorsko; Primorski (slv-lit)
Styrian; Stajerski; Štajerska baza; Štajersko (slv-sta)
Pannonian; Panonska baza; North-east Styrian/Pannonian; Northeastern Slovenian; Panonsko; Severovzhodno (slv-pan)
Lower Carniola; Dolenjska baza; Lower Carniolan; Dolenjsko (slv-low)
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered
Map of Slovenian
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