The article presents some of the obvious developmental linguistic trends which have shaped written Slovene from the oldest records until modern times, and indicates characteristics typical also of contemporary and future times: the origin of the written (standard) language in the spoken form along with disregarding the peculiarities of individual dialects and establishing supradialectal features (i.e. intentional standard character of the written language in the face of an influx of dialectal phenomena), adherence to the Schönleben rule, phonetic inconsistency due to consideration of both diachronic and synchronic elements in different proportions; universality of syntactic patterns, multifunctionality of written Slovene, written multilingualism, foreign intellectuals’ knowledge of Slovene, universality and consistency of the standard language in comparison to regionalization, loyalty to the national language when opposing supranational tendencies (Illyrism, Pan-Slavism, Yugoslavism, etc.).
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