Editing Slovene language (section)

==Classification==
Slovene is an [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European language]] belonging to the Western subgroup of the [[South Slavic languages|South Slavic]] branch of the [[Slavic languages]], together with [[Serbo-Croatian]]. It is close to the [[Chakavian dialect|Chakavian]] and especially [[Kajkavian dialect]]s of Serbo-Croatian, but genealogically more distant from the [[Shtokavian dialect]], the basis for the [[Bosnian language|Bosnian]], [[Croatian language|Croatian]], [[Montenegrin language|Montenegrin]], and [[Serbian language|Serbian]] standard languages. Slovene in general, and [[Prekmurje Slovene]] in particular, shares the highest level of [[mutual intelligibility]] with transitional Kajkavian dialects of [[Hrvatsko Zagorje]] and [[Međimurje County|Međimurje]].<ref name="Greenberg">Greenberg, Marc L., ''A Short Reference Grammar of Slovene,'' (''LINCOM Studies in Slavic Linguistics'' 30). Munich: LINCOM, 2008. {{ISBN|3-89586-965-1}}</ref> Furthermore, Slovene shares certain linguistic characteristics with all South Slavic languages, including those of the Eastern subgroup, namely [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]], [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]], and [[Torlakian dialects]].

Mutual intelligibility with varieties of Serbo-Croatian is hindered by differences in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation,<ref>{{cite book|last=Kordić|first=Snježana|author-link=Snježana Kordić|editor-last1=Nomachi|editor-first1=Motoki|editor-link1=Motoki Nomachi|editor-last2=Kamusella|editor-first2=Tomasz|editor-link2=Tomasz Kamusella|title=Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires|publisher=[[Routledge]]|series=Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe|pages=167{{hyphen}}179|chapter=Ideology Against Language: The Current Situation in South Slavic Countries|chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372202077|chapter-format=PDF|location=London|year=2024|doi=10.4324/9781003034025-11|doi-access=|isbn=978-0-367-47191-0|lccn=|oclc=1390118985|s2cid=259576119|s2cid-access=|ssrn=4680766|ssrn-access=free|id={{COBISS.SR|125229577}}. {{COBISS|171014403}}|archive-url=https://archive.org/details/kordic-ideology-against-language |archive-date=2024-01-10|access-date=2024-01-23|quote=In the Slavic area, there is one instance of a significant asymmetric intelligibility: Slovenians understand Croats better (79.4%) than Croats understand Slovenians (43.7%).|quote-page=174|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Kajkavian]] being firmly the most mutually intelligible. Slovene has some commonalities with the [[West Slavic language]]s that are not found in other South Slavic languages.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vlada.si/si/o_sloveniji/slovenscina/jezikovni_polozaj/ |title=Jezikovni položaj |language=sl |trans-title=Language Situation |publisher=Government of the Republic of Slovenia |first=Janez |last=Dular |author-link=Janez Dular |year=2001 |access-date=11 May 2012 |archive-date=28 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528235417/http://www.vlada.si/si/o_sloveniji/slovenscina/jezikovni_polozaj/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ezglot.com/most-similar-languages.php?l=slv|title=Similar languages to Slovenian|publisher=EZ Glot}}</ref>