Indo-European family
Slovene
c. 1000 CE – today Living
Slovene (c. 1000 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Slavic → Proto-South Slavic → Slovene.
See Slovene on the interactive map- Speakers
- 2.5M (2,500,000)
- ISO 639-3
- slv
- Glottocode
- slov1268
Western South Slavic. The Freising manuscripts (c. 1000) are the oldest Latin- script Slavic texts.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
- Proto-Slavicc. 200 BCE – 600 CE
- Proto-South Slavicc. 600 CE – 900 CE
- Slovenec. 1000 CE – today
Sister languages 2
Also descended from Proto-South Slavic.