Slovene

Slovene translation services

Classification

Indo-European > Slavic

Script

Roman

Text direction

Left-to-right

Speakers

2 million

Other names

Official language

Slovenia

Also spoken

Austria, Croatia

Interesting Fact

The @ sign in Slovenian is called "afna" (literally: a monkey).

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Slovene, or Slovenian, is a member of the South Western Slavic language family. Other languages in this language group include Macedonian, Bosnian and Ukrainian to name but a few. It is also an official language of the European Union.

The name ‘Slovene’ in Slovenian (slovenski jezik) means “Slavic language”; similarly, ‘Slovak’ in the Slovak language (slovenský jazyk) means exactly the same. Nevertheless, these two languages should not be confused.

Interestingly, some words have the same written form but are pronounced differently e.g. med (can mean both honey or between) or gol (can mean naked or goal). Many languages only differentiate between singular and plural but Slovene also has a category for “dual”. Out of all Slavic languages, Slovene is the only one to exhibit this feature.

Services offered for this language

Translation / Localization / Transcreation / Foreign Language Authoring / Translation Quality Assurance / Terminology / Glossaries / Editing / Braille / Sign Language Interpreting / Daisy / Moon / Bilingual and Monolingual Proofreading / Machine Translation / Subtitling / Voice-overs / Multilingual Desktop Publishing / Transcription / Easy Print / Tactile / Diagrams / E-text

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