Well, as a Serbian language speaker I understood almost entire introduction.
It's a nice way to spread slavic love and understanding around the world.
Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
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Re: Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
#52...Esperanto anyone? People only use languages which have a historic legacy, continuity and in which literature and poetry has been written, despite how horrible they are.
FFS, even programming language choice is oftern dictated by the ecosystem of already existing libraries nowadays :)
If Russia sponsored this for their imperialist dreams, they should've instead build a Simplified Russian, like you have Simplified Chinese. At least it would be rewarding to read some Dostoevski in something close to the original, and X% of SR learners would also grow up to learn Traditional Russian too...
(Though judging by how things are going, not likely.)
Re: Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
#53>logikju gramatia i Slovio es idealju jazika dla dnesju ludis. I can't guess what that last part means even with context
I don't speak any Slavic language, but I can make a reasonable guess at what the first half of that sentence means. Starting with the word "jazika" I have no idea anymore.
jazika ~ jezika ~ language (literal translation tongue), but the italic part I can't decipher.
Re: Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
#54It seems to me (a Pole) this language is much biased towards South Slavic languages. Possibly also towards East Slavic. It's not very similar to Polish.
Re: Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
#55Why 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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Re: Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't speak any Slavic language, but I can make a reasonable guess at what the first half of that sentence means. Starting with the word "jazika" I have no idea anymore.
jazika ~ jezika ~ language (literal translation tongue), but the italic part I can't decipher.
> Slovio es idealju jazika dla dnesju ludis.
I think this means "Slovio is the ideal language for/of everyday/today's people"
"ludis" is 100% "people". Not sure what "dla" and "dnesju" mean. In Bulgarian, "dnes" (днес) means "today" so that's where I'm coming from.
Re: Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
#57Interslavic 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 speaker of Croatian (southern Slavic) and Ukrainian (western Slavic), both Slavio and InterSlavic are bad from the Croatian POW, but InterSlavic is definitely a better choice in either case. Many word forms in InterSlavic just seem like strangely archaic versions of Croatian, but might pass as "just strange" for Ukrainian.
Interslavic seems just as understandable to me. Sometimes I wish all slavic people had one country, one language.
Let's call it Slavia.
Re: Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
#58>logikju gramatia i Slovio es idealju jazika dla dnesju ludis. I can't guess what that last part means even with context
would be something like "logical grammar and slovio is an ideal language for the people of today".
Re: Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
#59Interslavic 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 Pole, both languages are readable, but InterSlavic takes less effort and feels more natural. This FAQ matches my intuitions.
That said, I would be curious how it works for other Slavic languages. Or, in other words, is it sort of equidistant or favors one language or the other?
I mean, the FAQ claims that it is the easiest for Czechs and Slovaks (is it because of their geographical centrality and possibility that these languages are the closest to the "Slavic average"?) and harder for the South Slavs. However, and always, I would love to see any data.
Re: Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
#60Constructed slavic languages have a long history, with many before and some after Slovio. I have a Polish friend who was learning Interslavic a few years ago, mostly for fun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Slavic_language http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/constructed_slavic_language...
Has your friend ever had any real experience using it? I'm curious how viable these uniting languages are in practice. It feels like he might be able to understand people from different languages, but they wouldn't necessarily understand him when he's using Interslavic, right?
They did some experimentation with a Czech/Slovak colleagues, but those two languages are quite close already. I'm not sure if they ever got the chance to practice with a slavic language that is further removed from Polish.
I recall watching this video at the time (which might have been their inspiration to start learning it).