Apologies in advance to Tom for quoting his private response to the list. I felt it was germane and harmless.
Tom Gewecke <tom at bluesky dot org> wrote: >> FWIW, the language menu in my Ericsson T28 World phone offers >> Magyar (Hungarian), Slovenčina (Slovak), and Slovenski >> (Slovenian). > > Did you perhaps reverse the last two? You know, I wondered about that. I can't distinguish Slovak from Slovenian, and the prompts in the phone when I selected the two languages didn't help much. But a quick, superficial Web search on "slovencina" (note de-caroned 'c', a bone I threw to Google) and "slovenski" showed that the former mostly led to links on Slovak or Slovakia, or in the .sk domain, while the latter mostly led to links on Slovenian or Slovenia, or in the .si domain. Plus, Deborah's original post did mention "Slovenski" (with 'i' at the end, not 'y') as the word for Slovenian. But I did find one Google hit for "slovencina" that led straight to a Slovenian pronunciation page. So no, I'm not entirely sure. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
