Slovio uses -s suffix for plural which is completely weird in any slavic language, -i would be much more natural (ulcas, domis, glovis vs ulci, domi, glovi) and that is what another panslavic language interslavic/Medžuslovjansky uses (ulici, domi, glavi): http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/
Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
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Re: Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
#12Why "x" instead of "z" in cz/sz/rz etc. sounds? It's not used by any Slavic languages AFAIK, some use z, some use ^ (and they used z in the past), others use cyrylic but nobody uses x for these. It's weird. Also w for szcz makes no sense. Use r for "ja" while you're at it :)
> Also w for szcz makes no sense.
Propbably an attempt to use a letter similar to graphically.
> Why "x" instead of "z" in cz/sz/rz etc. sounds?
I think it is something picked up from Esperanto. Traditional way to replace Esperanto-specific letters, when not supported, was to change it to a letter followed by an “h”, but there is also a more widely used method using “x” instead.
Re: Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
#13Interslavic is another similar project. They don't like Slovio too much: http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/index.html http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/faq.html#slovio
As a Polish speaker, Interslavic seems significantly easier and more natural to read, but I wonder if it's actually universally better, or just more suited for western Slavs.
Re: Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
#14It's surprising how easily I understand this as a Russian speaker.
Re: Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
#15I once discussed this language with a Russian woman, and she said this language made her eyes bleed.
Настя.
Re: Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
#16Why cx, sx, zx instead of č, š, ž? That’s a step backwards. Slavic languages have perfectly fine letters for those phonemes.
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#17Lithuanian and Latvian is not slavic and Slovio would not be understood by their native speakers.
Re: Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
#18Interslavic is another similar project. They don't like Slovio too much: http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/index.html http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/faq.html#slovio
As a Polish speaker, Interslavic seems significantly easier and more natural to read, but I wonder if it's actually universally better, or just more suited for western Slavs.
Same for me (as a native Ukrainian speaker).
Re: Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
#19Slovio uses -s suffix for plural which is completely weird in any slavic language, -i would be much more natural (ulcas, domis, glovis vs ulci, domi, glovi) and that is what another panslavic language interslavic/Medžuslovjansky uses (ulici, domi, glavi): http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/
I'm only familiar with Russian, but "es" for "to be" feels weird too. And it's used where Russian would just omit it. Are there Slavic languages that are more liberal with it? And I feel like some form of Cyrillic would be much more natural both because of the available phonemes and because I believe most Slavic speakers would be more familiar with it than the Latin alphabet. As a non-native learner, I've always had trouble trying to parse out Russian transliterated into Latin script.
This almost looks like something a speaker of a romance language would put together.
Re: Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
#20Fairly easy to understand, but looks weird in places as others have mentioned (the X especially). Interslavic looks like a real slavic language, and is easy to understand as well (though I would say a bit harder).
I speak Slovak and Czech, and both of the above seem easier to me than Polish or Slovenian for example.
Which brings me to, is there some sort of visualization of proximity of different Slavic languages? How much they differ between each other, which ones for closer groups, etc...