Slovenian

2.0M people can hold a conversation in Slovenian across 5 countries; official in 1.

Data as of 28 Oct 2026 · ISO 639-3 slv · Glottolog slov1268 · Indo-European · CLDR 49, Glottolog 5.3, States sheet

Where Slovenian is spoken

Share of each country's people who can hold a conversation in it.

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Countries

Share of the population and people who can hold a conversation in it, by country.

How this is measured
Most figures are CLDR's estimates of speakers. CLDR lists only each country's larger languages, so where it has no figure a national census or official survey fills in, and the Figure column says which and what it counts. A home-language figure is a floor: more people can speak the language than use it at home.
1
official
87%
1.9M
2
none
0.2%
100K
3
regional
0.4%
34K
4
none · Census, mother tongue
0.0%
8K
5
0.1%
5K

States where it is the first language

States whose first language is this one, largest population first.

1
Central Slovenia
571K
2
328K
3
Savinja
264K
4
Upper Carniola
211K
5
Southeast Slovenia
146K
6
Coastal - Karst
119K
7
Gorizia
118K
8
114K
9
Slovenian Carinthia
71K
10
Lower Sava
70K
11
Littoral - Inner Carniola
53K
12
Central Sava
41K

Family

Where it sits in the Glottolog tree, root to language.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Balto-Slavic
  4. Slavic
  5. South Slavic
  6. Western South Slavic
  7. Slovenian

Indo-European: 216 languages, 5.95B speakers.

Where these numbers come from

Definitions are on the Method page.