Slovenian

Alpine Slavic nationality

Slovenian refers to anything relating to Slovenia, a small country in Central Europe bordering Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Croatia.

As a noun, a Slovenian is a person from Slovenia.

Slovenian also names the South Slavic language spoken there, closely related to Croatian and Serbian but written in the Latin alphabet: She's learning Slovenian before her trip to Ljubljana.

culinary

sausage

Encased ground meat

  • jotaSpanish regional dance
  • honeyBees' viscous nectar product
  • buckwheatTriangular-seeded pseudocereal

cream cake · dumplings · strudel · wine · schnapps · cuisine · recipe · homemade · farmhouse · gastronomy

cultural

accordion

Bellows-driven reed instrument

  • polkaBouncy partnered folk step
  • laceOpen-weave ornamental fabric
  • beekeepingMaintaining hives for honey

folk · tradition · carnival · hayracks · ethnographic · festivals · handicrafts · embroidery · woodcarving · heritage

geographic

Alps

European mountain system

mountainous · forested · caves · plateaus · valleys · rivers · terrain · landscape · borders

nationality

Slovene

Native of Ljubljana's country

Alpine · citizenship · passport · heritage · ancestry · diaspora · expatriate · immigrant · Trieste · ethnic

language

Slovene

Native of Ljubljana's country

Latin script · dialect · vocabulary · pronunciation · fluent · speaker · translation · Indo-European · literary · standard

Categories
Opposites
national/ethnic identity

Slovenianstateless

Without national belonging

foreign · Croatian · Austrian · Hungarian · Italian

former Yugoslav identity

SlovenianSerbian

Of or from Serbia

Croatian · Bosnian · Macedonian · Montenegrin · Kosovar

Family

Slovenia, Slovenians

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G