This book describes the grammar of Fwe, a Bantu language spoken in Zambia and Namibia. In this chapter, a background will be given about the language, its classification and its sociolinguistic situation, an estimate of the language’s vitality and a brief overview of regional variation in Fwe discusses the small body of earlier research that mentions Fwe, and discusses The purpose of the current study and the data on which it is based. The Fwe language is called cìfwè by its speakers; the initial syllable ci- is a prefix of noun class 7 indicating a language. As is common when referring to In English, the nominal prefix is omitted, and the language is referred to as Fwe in this work. Another name that many speakers, as well as speakers of surrounding languages, use for the language is sifwe, where si- is the class 7 prefix in the regional lingua franca Lozi.