Linguistics

Languages of Slovenia

Part of Yugoslavia until 1991. Literacy rate 98%. 1,993,000 (1998 UN).

National or official languages:

Slovenian
Hungarian
Italian

Also includes Gheg Albanian 4,022, Standard German 1,543, Macedonian 4,603, Sinte Romani 2,847, Serbo-Croatian 155,013, Venetian. Information mainly from M. Stephens 1976: B. Comrie 1987; T. Priestley 1995; W. Browne 1996. Christian, Muslim, Jewish, atheist. Data accuracy estimate: B. The number of languages listed for Slovenia is 4. Of those, all are living languages. Diversity index 0.17.

Spoken Living Languages

Name	Alternate Names	Description	Classification	Dialects
HUNGARIAN	MAGYAR	[HNG] 9,240 (1991 census). Eastern Slovenia. More information.	Uralic, Finno-Ugric, Ugric, Hungarian	-
ITALIAN	ITALIANO	[ITN] 4,009 in Slovenia (1991 census). More information.	Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Italo-Dalmatian	-
SLOVENIAN	- SLOVENSCINA - SLOVENE	[SLV] 1,727,360 in Slovenia (1991 census). Population total all countries 2,000,000 (1999 WA). More information.	Indo-European, Slavic, South, Western	LOWER CARNIOLA UPPER CARNIOLA STAJERSKI PRIMORSKI SAVRINSKI (or SAVRINO)¹
VENETIAN	VENETO	[VEC] 100,000 in Croatia and Slovenia (1994 Tapani Salminen). See also Italian in Croatia. Istrian Peninsula and Dalmatia.	Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Upper German, Allemannic	ISTRIAN (or ISTRO-VENETIAN¹) TRETINE VENETIAN PROPER
Deaf sign languages
YUGOSLAVIAN SIGN LANGUAGE		[YSL] More information.	Deaf sign language.	SLOVENIAN SIGN LANGUAGE.

Existing name usage, but not currently officially recognized.
To distinguish from the SLAVIC ISTRIAN dialect which is existing but not officially recognized.

Source:

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Slovenia

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