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Slovenian

Slovenian, or slovenšcina, is a Slavonic language spoken by over two million people mainly in Slovenia, which was a Yugoslav republic until 1991. Slovene is written in Latin (Roman) letters. The Scriptures were first translated into Slovenian by Jurij Dalmatin a Slovene Lutheran pastor. He produced the Bibilija in 1584. The translation set the norm for the Slovene language until the nineteenth century. In 2008 it underwent a minor revision with headings added to the Old Testament. Slovenian speaking Christians are mainly Catholic with a historic Protestant, mainly Lutheran, minority. Bible work is done by the Slovenian Bible Society. A Slovenian Ecumenical Translation (Sveto Pismo) was produced in 1974. The Slovenian Standard Version (SSP) was produced in 1996 and revised in 2003 available, with or without deuterocanonical books.