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Slo·vene

S0482600 (slō′vēn′) also Slo·ve·ni·an (slō-vē′nē-ən, -vēn′yən)n.1. a. A native or inhabitant of Slovenia.b. A person of Slovenian ancestry.2. The Slavic language of the Slovenes.adj. Of or relating to Slovenia or its people, language, or culture.

[German Slowene, from Slovene Slovê[lowdot]nec, ultimately from Old Church Slavonic Slověne, Slav.]

Slovene

(sləʊˈviːn) adj1. (Placename) of, relating to, or characteristic of Slovenia, its people, or their language2. (Peoples) of, relating to, or characteristic of Slovenia, its people, or their language3. (Languages) of, relating to, or characteristic of Slovenia, its people, or their languagen4. (Languages) Also: Slovenian a South Slavonic language spoken in Slovenia, closely related to Croatian5. (Peoples) a. a native or inhabitant of Sloveniab. a speaker of Slovene

Slo•vene

(sloʊˈvin, ˈsloʊ vin)

also Slo•ve′ni•an,

n. 1. a member of a Slavic people living in Slovenia and adjacent parts of Austria and Italy. 2. the South Slavic language of the Slovenes. adj. 3. of or pertaining to Slovenia, the Slovenes, or their language. [1880–85; < German Slowene < Slovene Slovệnec (n.), slovệnski (adj.), ultimately derivative of Common Slavic *slověninŭ Slav]

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Noun	1.	Slovene - a native of SloveniaRepublic of Slovenia, Slovenia, Slovenija - a mountainous republic in central Europe; formerly part of the Habsburg monarchy and Yugoslavia; achieved independence in 1991European - a native or inhabitant of Europe
	2.	Slovene - the Slavic language of SlovenesSlavic, Slavic language, Slavonic, Slavonic language - a branch of the Indo-European family of languages

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a South Slavonic language spoken in Slovenia, closely related to Serbo-Croat

Slovene

the language of the Slovenes and one of the official languages of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; it belongs to the South Slavic group of languages. There are approximately 2 million speakers of Slovene, including approximately 1.6 million in Slovenia (according to the 1971 census); there are also speakers living in the areas of Austria, Italy, and Hungary bordering on Yugoslavia. The language has seven groups of dialects.

The phonetic peculiarities of literary Slovene include the opposition of long and short vowels under stress and open and closed vowels under stress, the vowel e [ə] in place of Proto-Slavic Ъ and b, the absence of an opposition of palatalized and unpalatalized consonants, and the change of l and ν to u̯ at the end of a syllable. The dynamic and musical stress is free (movable). Morphological features include the preservation of the dual, pluperfect, and supine and the loss of the aorist and imperfect, the vocative forms, and the consonant alternations in the nominal declension. The oldest written documents are the Freising Texts of the late tenth or the early 11th century.

The Slovene literary language was formed by the end of the 19th century. The modern literary language functions alongside spoken variants, among which there are significant phonetic and lexical differences. Norms for a common spoken language are being formulated in the second half of the 20th century. Slovene is written in the Latin alphabet.

REFERENCES

Florinskii, T. D. Lektsii po slavianskomu iazykoznaniiu, part 1. Kiev, 1895.
Ramovš, F. Historična gramatika slovenskega jezika, vol. 2: Konzonantizem; vol. 7: Dialekti. Ljubljana, 1924–35.
Ramovš, F. Kratka zgodovina slovenskega jezika: I. Ljubljana, 1936.
Toporišič, J. Slovenski knjižni jezik, vols. Maribor, 1965-70.
Bajec, A., R. Kolarič, and M. Rupel. Slovenská slovnica. Ljubljana, 1973.
Kotnik, J. Slovenskoruski slovar, 2nd ed. Ljubljana, 1967.
Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika, vol. 1. Ljubljana, 1970.

O. S. PLOTNIKOVA

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