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How does Slovenian sound to foreigners?
Slovenian is quite obviously a Slavic language, as you can clearly hear it in the pronunciation. I personally love it, because it sounds very musical and rhythmic. It’s really nice to just listen to, hearing those rolled R sounds and “sh” sounds and all.
Is Slovene mutually intelligible?
Slovene is sometimes characterized as the most diverse Slavic language in terms of dialects, with different degrees of mutual intelligibility. Accounts of the number of dialects range from as few as seven dialects, often considered dialect groups or dialect bases that are further subdivided into as many as 50 dialects.
Do Slovenians understand other Slavic languages?
Slovenians, for example, don’t have any problem understanding Croatian or Serbian, but they have more difficulty understanding Macedonian and Bulgarian, not to mention West and East Slavic languages. Slovaks and Czechs also understand each other pretty well—because of their common history.
What is the difference between Serbian and Montenegro?
Serbian is a South Slavic language. Its writing is Cyrillic. In Montenegro they use both, Cyrillic and Latin. The independence of Montenegro in 2006 was followed by polemics about Montenegrin as an independent language. Serbian has a lot of words from Turkish and French. This also separates it from Croatian.
Are there any Czech letters unknown in Slovenian?
Here are some Czech letters unknown in Slovenian: A language is very similar to Czech, both also have a similar alphabet. Slovak has also some common features with South Slavic languages, especially with Slovenian and some Croatian dialects.
What are some examples of phraseology between Slovenian and Polish?
Phraseology examples between Slovenian and Polish: Ukrainian is East Slavic language with West Slavic influences, mainly Polish. It is quite different from Russian. Bulgarian is together with Macedonian, Romanian and Albanian also related as the so-called ‘Balkan language union’.