PEOPLE AND LANGUAGE – SLOVENIA
PEOPLE AND LANGUAGE – SLOVENIA

Summary/Abstract: The world is made of many nations and languages. Some languages define a nation, some do not. There are languages that are spoken very similar in several countries, and therefore in more nations (e.g. English, Spanish, German), there are languages spoken by a single nation (e.g. Slovenian), and there are nations that have more than one language (e.g. Indians). Most of the countries unite several nations and have several official languages (e.g. Switzerland) or a single official language for all citizens (e.g. USA). Slovenia is a national state in which the majority of residents are Slovenes, but there also ethnic minorities (Italian and Hungarian). Slovenian nation has developed only in the last few centuries, but the Slovenian language has been developing for a millennia. Slovene language became an official language only after the First World War and after the independence (1991), the Slovenian language became a state language.

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