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3 unusual facts about Slovene language


Luminiţa Dinu

Dinu-Huțupan, who began playing handball in 1985, has a high school diploma, is married, and speaks Romanian and Slovene.

Slovene

The Slovene language, a South Slavic language mainly spoken in Slovenia

Slovene language

The language is spoken by about 2.5 million people, mainly in Slovenia, but also by Slovene national minorities in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy (around 90,000 in Venetian Slovenia, Resia Valley, Canale Valley, Province of Trieste and in those municipalities of the Province of Gorizia bordering with Slovenia), in southern Carinthia and some parts of Styria in Austria (25,000).


Celje Castle

Celje Castle (also known as Celje Upper Castle or Old Castle) (Slovene Celjski grad, Celjski zgornji grad or Stari grad) is a castle ruin in Celje, Slovenia, formerly the seat of the Counts of Celje.

Danish language

Similar constructions are found in German, Dutch, Afrikaans, certain varieties of Norwegian, Slovene and Arabic as well as in archaic and dialect English (compare the line "Four-and-twenty blackbirds" in the old nursery rhyme.)

Friulian language

It is sometimes called Eastern Ladin, since it shares the same roots as Ladin, although over the centuries it has diverged under the influence of surrounding languages, including German, Italian, Venetian, and Slovene.

Gitschtal

Gitschtal (Slovene: Višprijska dolina) is a town in the district of Hermagor in the Austrian state of Carinthia.

Ifigenija Zagoričnik Simonović

Ifigenija Zagoričnik Simonović (born 24 March 1953) is a Slovene poet, essayist, writer, editor and potter.

Matija Majar

During his studies in Klagenfurt, he came under the influence of Anton Martin Slomšek, a Roman Catholic priest and author who propagated the use of Slovene in the public sphere.

Punch Festival

The Punch Festival (in Slovene phonetically also Panč festival) is the most visited stand up comedy festival held in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Toussaint Hočevar

Besides numerous treatises in history, economy and system theory, he was also the co-author, together with Miran Hladnik, of a popular manual of Slovene language for travelers, which was published posthumously in 1988.


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Miran Hladnik

In 1984/1985, Hladnik spent the academic year at University of Kansas, USA, as Fulbright teaching assistant, teaching Slovene language at the university and also teaching the language in both Kansas City and Pittsburg, to the local American Slovenes communities.

Prince's Stone

After the incorporation into the Frankish Empire the procedure held in Slovene language was continued as the first part of the coronation of the Dukes of Carinthia, followed by a mass at Maria Saal cathedral and the installation at the Duke's chair, where he swore an oath in German and received the homage of the estates.

Slovenski glasnik

Slovenski glasnik was the first Slovene language magazine with a chess column.