Languages of Slovenia
Slovenia. 1,954,033. National or official languages: Slovene, Hungarian, Italian. Literacy rate: 98%. Immigrant languages: Croatian (155,000), Gheg Albanian (4,020), Macedonian (4,600), Sinte Romani (2,850), Standard German (1,540), Venetian. Information mainly from W. Browne, E. Dornisch, N. Kondrashova and D. Zec 1997; B. Comrie 1987; T. Priestly 1993; M. Stephens 1976. The number of individual languages listed for Slovenia is 4. Of those, all are living languages.
| Hungarian | [hun]
9,240 in Slovenia (1991 census). East.
Alternate names: Magyar.
Classification: Uralic
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| Italian | [ita]
4,010 in Slovenia (1991 census).
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Italo-Dalmatian
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| Slovene | [slv]
1,730,000 in Slovenia (1991 census). Population total all countries: 1,909,050. Carniola, south Styria and Carinthia. Lower Carniola in Dolenjsko; Upper Carniola in Gorenjska; Primorski in West Slovenia; Stajerski in Styria. Also in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Serbia, United States.
Alternate names: Slovenian, Slovenscina.
Dialects: Lower Carniola, Upper Carniola, Stajerski, Primorski, Prekmurski. The literary dialect between the 2 main dialects, based on Dolenjsko. Dialects diverse.
Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, South, Western
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| Yugoslavian Sign Language | [ysl]
Dialects: Slovenian Sign Language.
Classification: Deaf sign language
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