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A schematic map of Slovenian dialects.
A schematic map of Slovenian dialects.


Spoken Slovene has at least 32 main dialects (narečje) (dI) and speeches (govor) (sP). Slovene or Slovenian ( slovenski jezik or slovenščina, not to be confused with Slovenčina) is a South Slavic language A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος dialektos) is a variety of a Language that is characteristic of a particular group of This is a reasonably large number for any language; when considering the amount of speakers, however, this makes Slovene one of the most diverse languages in the world.

The main regional groups are:

  1. koroško (Carinthian),
  2. vzhodno (Eastern),
  3. panonsko (severovzhodno) (Northeastern),
  4. zahodno (Western),
  5. osrednje (Central),
  6. gorenjsko (of Upper Carniola),
  7. belokranjsko (of White Carniola),
  8. dolenjsko (of Lower Carniola),
  9. primorsko (Littoral).

There are also local groups and subgroups (sG), such as the following, listed by region:

The various dialects are so different from each other that a speaker of one dialect may have a very difficult time understanding a speaker of another, particularly if they belong to different regional groups. Trieste (Trieste Slovene and Croatian: Trst; German: Triest) is a city and port in northeastern Italy very near to Celje ( Cilli Cille is the third largest City in Slovenia. Exhibiting the typical characteristics of a Central European city it is the Idrija (Italian Idria) is a small town and municipality with the same name in Slovenia. This article is about a geographical region bordering the Adriatic Sea Inner Carniola ( Slovenian: Notranjska; Innerkrain is a traditional region of Slovenia. Kostel is a Town and a municipality in Slovenia. Kranjska Gora (German Kronau) population 1605 is a town and a municipality in north-west Slovenia, close to the Austrian and Italian KRAS is a gene encoding the KRas Proto-oncogene. Like other members of the Ras gene family the KRAS protein is a GTPase and is an early player in many Laško (Tüffer is a Spa town and municipality on the Savinja River in Lower Styria, Slovenia. Ljubljana ( is the largest and Capital city of Slovenia. It is located in the center of the country and is a mid-sized city of some 270000 inhabitants Maribor (historical German name de ''Marburg an der Drau'' is the second largest City in Slovenia. Mežica (- Slovenian, German: Mießdorf) is a town and a municipality in Slovenia in Carinthia (known as Koroska in Slovenian near Inner Carniola ( Slovenian: Notranjska; Innerkrain is a traditional region of Slovenia. The Soča (in Slovene) or The Wends or Prekmurian dialect (here and there Prekmurian language Slov The Savinja is a River in northeast Slovenia which flows mostly in the Upper and Lower Savinja valley (Zgornja in Spodnja Savinjska dolina and through the cities Solčava (German Sulzbach) is a town and a municipality in Slovenia close to the Austrian border Škofja Loka is a town and a municipality in Slovenia. History The town history began in 973 when German emperor Otto II Tolmin ( Italian Tolmino, German Tolmein) is a small Town and Municipality with the same name in Slovenia Trbovlje (population 16290 is a town and municipality in central Slovenia. In such communication, standard Slovene, comparable to received pronunciation in the UK, is used per convention. Received Pronunciation ( RP) is a form of Pronunciation of the English language (specifically British English) which has long been perceived as

The dialects from the Carinthian region differ from each other less in their deep structure than in their vocal and lexical image; from literary language, however, they differ no more than the other marginal dialects. A literary language is a register of a Language that is used in Literary Writing.

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