Slovenski jezik in njegov trenutni pomen z vidika primerjalnega jezikoslovja

As a member of the South Slavonic group, the Slovene language is of utmost importance to comparative linguistics, for it shows analytic tendencies common to other Slavonic languages while preserving archaisms, such as the grammatical categories of the dual and supine. Furthermore, Slovene dialects reveal parallels with South Slavonic Balkan languages although Slovene does not belong to the Balkan language group.