Slovenian in Slovenia

Speakers

1,723,434

Type

Location

Slovenian in Slovenia

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Slovenian in Slovenia

Size

1,723,434

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
Yes
Indigenous language
Yes

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Video

Digital
Yes

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Audio

Digital
Yes

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban

Size / Number of users

Number of users

1723434
Source
census
Year
2002

Users within total population

100 % use the language

Users within the reference community

100 % use the language

Age distribution of users

1,184,094
69
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

census, 2002

Age distribution of users

274,496
16
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

census, 2002

Age distribution of users

264,844
15
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

census, 2002

Generational use

All generations

Educational attainment

36
64
11,337
No education
Early childhood education
39
61
433,910
Primary education
62
38
452,292
Lower secondary education
46
54
447,049
Higher secondary education
47
53
215,062
Tertiary education

Occupational qualifications

50
50
68,151
Elementary occupations
65
35
129,754
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
88
12
104,686
Craft and related trades workers
63
37
25,984
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
37
63
94,061
Services and sales workers
28
72
80,686
Clerical support workers
48
52
133,596
Technicians and associate professionals
41
59
89,421
Professionals
71
29
32,938
Managers

Language competence

Language not used
Understand little, speak/sign none
Understand some, speak/sign little
Understand well, speak/sign some
Understand all, speak/sign well
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

(Almost) 100 % of users with literacy in the language

Digital use

More than 50% digital users of the language

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion