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Interslavic Language
By: Nikola Date: August 10, 2019, 4:41 am
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I thought Martin might like this. Miriam shared this with me
yesterday. The guy in the top left corner speaks Interslavic (I
had no idea this existed) and gives his Slavic friends
instructions to follow. I found it so easy to understand I
couldn't believe it. I wouldn't be able to understand any
individual Slavic language so well.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NztgXMLwv4A
This guy Norbert (top right corner) has some interesting videos
on YouTube of bilingual conversations where two people try to
work out what's being said in the other, mutually intelligible
language. You've probably seen some of those, Martin.
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Re: Interslavic Language
By: MartinSR Date: August 12, 2019, 8:04 am
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I've never heard about Interslavic (the first thing that comes
to my mind is Interlingua as the simplified Latin). First
impressions which comes to my mind is that the speaker tries to
use words which are known for existing in several Slavic
languages. Some of them are understandable to Polish speakers as
the alternative or outdated to those we use nowadays.
Since I had Russian at school and learned a few basic words and
some grammar of Croatian before my holidays a few years ago, I
see this language sounds like I tried to speak Croatian
replacing the words I don't know with Polish or Russian. I see
this Croatian both in grammar endings (govoriti, instead of
Russian govorit' or most close Polish gaworzyć [baby talk]
or gwarzyć, though probably hovoryty in Ukrainian) and in
vocabulary (trbuh).
The interesting thing I noticed while chatting with my Czech and
Slovak friends, is that when either side of the talk notices one
word is more understandable than the other- uses it more often.
And the other side starts using that word from the language of
his companion. It looks like we were 'negotiating' the common
language while talking. After one hour or so we actually speak
the same language created for the purpose of this one chat.
It's probably the way so called Interslavic appeared. When it's
neither codified nor taught on regular bases - it seems to be
rather the way of communication based on not good enough mutual
intelligibility than the separate language.
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Re: Interslavic Language
By: Nikola Date: August 12, 2019, 3:34 pm
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It seems to work on the principle you describe, that is through
choosing the most neutral expressions so that they could be
understood by everyone, but it's more sophisticated than I
thought. It's actually based on Old Church Slavonic, it has set
declension tables and can be written in both Latin and Cyrillic
so basically on any Slavic keyboard.
This is how they chose the words from different languages:
Words in Interslavic are based on comparison of the vocabulary
of the modern Slavic languages. For this purpose, the latter are
subdivided into six groups:
Russian
Ukrainian and Belarusian
Polish
Czech and Slovak
Slovene, Croat, Serbian, Montenegrin and Bosnian
Bulgarian and Macedonian
These groups are treated equally. In some situations even
smaller languages, like Cashubian, Rusyn and Sorbian languages
are included. Interslavic vocabulary has been compiled in such
way that words are understandable to a maximum number of Slavic
speakers. The form in which a chosen word is adopted depends not
only on its frequency in the modern Slavic languages, but also
on the inner logic of Interslavic, as well as its form in
Proto-Slavic: to ensure coherence, a system of regular
derivation is applied.
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interslavic_language
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