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date: 14 December 2024

Slovenian Family Names Including an Overview of Gottscheerish (Gottschee German) Surnames 

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Dictionary of American Family Names
Author(s):
Simon LenarčičSimon Lenarčič

The Slovenian language (called slovenščina in Slovene), which is spoken by 1.9 million people in the region between the Adriatic Sea, the Alps, and Pannonia, is one of the South Slavic languages, among which the Kajkavian dialect of the Serbo‑Croatian language is by far its closest relative (see the introductory essay ... ...

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