This concise grammar offers a brief but coherent overview of the structure of Slovene - intended for everyone who is learning the language or who wishes to understand its structures more closely. It describes present-day Slovene not as an isolated body of rules but out of its history: from Indo-European through Proto-Slavic to the distinctive South Slavic developments. Wherever it aids understanding, comparisons are drawn with Latin, German, Friulian and other languages.