Slovene
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An Introduction to the Language
History
Like all Slavic languages, Slovene traces its roots to the same proto-Slavic group of languages that produced Old Church Slavonic. The earliest known examples of a distinct, written Slovene dialect are from the Freising Manuscripts, known in Slovene as Brižinski spomeniki. The consensus estimate of their date of origin is between 972 and 1093 (most likely before 1000). These religious writings are among the oldest surviving manuscripts in any Slavic language.
Family
Indo-European
- Balto-Slavic
- Slavic
- South Slavic
- Western South Slavic
- Slovene/Slovenian
- Western South Slavic
Spoken in
Slovene is spoken in Slovenia,Italy (in Friuli Venezia Giulia), Austria (in Carinthia and Styria), Hungary (in Vas) and Croatia with about 2.4 million speakers.
