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Elsewhere, this pronunciation is considered archaic. Speakers of dialects which completely lost the distinction between palatal and non-palatal /l/ and /n/ pronounce them the same also in the Standard language. Other speakers can pronounce them either as one of the forms above, or as longer /lː/ and /nː/, respectively.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Slovene on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Slovene in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The Slovene alphabet or Slovenian alphabet (Slovene: slovenska abeceda, pronounced [slɔˈʋèːnska abɛˈtséːda] or slovenska gajica [-ˈɡáːjitsa]) is an extension of the Latin script used to write Slovene.
Following World War II, Slovenia became part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Slovene was one of the official languages of the federation. In the territory of Slovenia, it was commonly used in almost all areas of public life. One important exception was the Yugoslav army, where Serbo-Croatian was used exclusively, even in Slovenia.
The official and national language of Slovenia is Slovene, which is spoken by a large majority of the population. It is also known, in English, as Slovenian. Two minority languages, namely Hungarian and Italian, are recognised as co-official languages and accordingly protected in their residential municipalities. [7]
In writing, -e at the end of the stem is omitted in some loanwords Wilde Slovene pronunciation: [ˈʋáːjlt] Wilda Slovene pronunciation: [ˈʋáːjlda] 'Wilde' and Laforgue Slovene pronunciation: [laˈfóːrg] Lafforgua [laˈfóːrga] 'Laforgue', but not in cases where that would affect the pronunciation of preceding letters, such as in ...
Slovenia, [a] officially the Republic of Slovenia, [b] is a country in Central Europe. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short coastline within the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, which is part of the Mediterranean sea . [ 15 ]
The grapheme Ž (minuscule: ž) is formed from Latin Z with the addition of caron (Czech: háček, Slovak: mäkčeň, Slovene: strešica, Serbo-Croatian: kvačica).It is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiced postalveolar fricative, the sound of English g in mirage, s in vision, or Portuguese and French j.