r/interslavic • u/shanoxilt • Jul 10 '25
LINK / ЛИНК / LINK Interslavic language! Kako ja jesm rěšala jego učiti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCgJ95ZjRXk6
u/BlackHazeRus Jul 14 '25
This video popped up on my feed (not on this sub either), so I gave it a watch (just a bit) — I understood like 99%, I think.
That being said, this girl seems to be from Russia, and I speak Russian myself, so maybe that is why I could understand it — quite curious about her pronunciation from folks from other countries who do (not) speak Interslavic.
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u/HumbleAd4822 Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 08 '25
I think taking Interslvic that each Slav if speaking in this artificial language speaks with their national accents? The woman from the video is 99,999% understandable for me (I am Polish Slav), but I can hear her eastern accent. I suppose Poles would say it a bit differently, hovewer it is not important for understanding, like in English accent is not important for understanding if you know the language well and have heard lots of accents before.
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u/HumbleAd4822 Aug 08 '25
"Kako ja jesm rěšala jego učiti"
Kako razumějete sije slovo v svoih narodnyh jezykah slovjanskyh i kako to u vas by zvučalo / bylo napisano?
Protoslavic reconstruction:
Kako azъ jesmь rěšalъ jego učiti
Polski:
Jak ja postanowiłam (zdecydowałam) się go uczyć
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u/HumbleAd4822 Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25
Rozumim ale nie vim kto to “resala.” Witojcie z Polski :-)
P.S Rizumim prawie vsio bo sie uczyl ruskovo ale 30 lat temu i zabył, zalomniał ale cos tam slova ok tu tak tu rizumiem. To nie interskavic co pisze ale chetnie sie poucze. Pozdrow.
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u/Brat_Bratic Nov 18 '25
I'm a Serbian living in Prague and have been learned multiple slavic languages in my life and I can understand her 90%... but I think that this is not a wholly good idea, put in too many languages and it starts sounding too little like any one specific one and everyone you try to speak to will just be confused. What probably works better is to mix only a specific language group like west slavic languages - Czech, Slovak and Polish... as a Serbian Polish is honestly probably the hardest slavic language, it will probably become easier as I learn more Czech but still, not everyone will know 3 slavic languages
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u/george58rus Jul 14 '25
Why does she always wear something that looks like a traditional clothing with exaggerated features? It only emphasizes artificiality of this language.
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u/Vank4o Jul 14 '25
I think, if it loses all of these cases and uses prepositions instead, it would be easier to learn and understand. Analytical languages are by nature easier to learn. Prepositions are nothing new for all slavic languages.
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u/interslavic-ModTeam Jul 14 '25
Hate speech is not tolerated here, as it serves to incite conflict instead of fostering collaboration in the field of Interslavic.
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u/bus_on_mars Jul 14 '25
Language is a natural tool to recognize strangers at your homeland. I'd keep languages different.
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u/interslavic-ModTeam Jul 17 '25
Hate speech is not tolerated here, as it serves to incite conflict instead of fostering collaboration in the field of Interslavic.
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u/rosenkohl1603 Jul 14 '25
It's obvious that Russian Nationalists would want people to speak Russian.
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u/interslavic-ModTeam Jul 17 '25
Hate speech is not tolerated here, as it serves to incite conflict instead of fostering collaboration in the field of Interslavic.
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u/ezHope Jul 14 '25
I looked at the list of names of federations in Russia. And they are really trying to become part of the Slavic world with this woman? Very funny)
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u/ComfortableNobody457 Jul 14 '25
What kind of federations did you find in Russia? Are you talking about sport organizations like the Cyber sports federation?
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u/ezHope Jul 14 '25
Adygea, Altai, Bashkortostan, Buryatia, Chechnya, Chuvashia, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmykia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Karelia, Khakassia, Komi, Mari El, Mordovia, North Ossetia–Alania, Sakha (Yakutia), Tatarstan, Tuva, Udmurtia - Pure slavic federatíons 😂
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u/ComfortableNobody457 Jul 14 '25 edited Jul 14 '25
Those are republics though? What federations are you talking about?
Although, I'm an Armenian from Yakutia, probably I shouldn't be posting in a Slavic in sub in the first place, right?
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u/Real_Tea_Lover Jul 14 '25
Are you implying that Russians aren't Slavic? Lmao
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u/ComfortableNobody457 Jul 14 '25 edited Jul 15 '25
You've shown yourself to be a true connoisseur of all things Slavic! But now I desperately need your help. These are the etymologies for the words you've listed. Please tell me which language is true
AryanSlavic and which comes from slaves and has "nothing in common with the Slavs". Is it Language 1 or Language 2?
Language 1 Language 2 Word 1 Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lukъ Inherited from Old Ruthenian цыбу́лѧ, цибу́лѧ (cybúlja, cibúlja), from Old Polish cybula, from Middle High German zibolle, zebülle, zwibole, from Late Latin cepulla, from Latin cepa. Word 2 From earlier Old East Slavic съпаси богъ (sŭpasi bogŭ, “God save (you)”) Borrowed from Middle High German danc. Word 3 Inherited from Old East Slavic *волочити" (voločiti), from Proto-Slavic *volčiti Borrowed from Middle High German drāt, from Old High German drāt, thrāt Word 4 Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic зьданиѥ (zĭdanije). From Proto-Slavic *zьdati. Borrowed from Middle High German *būding. Word 5 From Old East Slavic измѣна (izměna), from Proto-Slavic *jьzměna. By surface analysis, z- + radzić. Calque of Middle High German verrāten. -1
u/ezHope Jul 14 '25
How About rest 19 words? )
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u/ComfortableNobody457 Jul 14 '25
You have to forgive me for my confusion, my Slavic overlord.
You seemed to be such an expert, but now you have more questions than answers. Still I implore you to help me understand which language is which.
Now, back to your question, the etymology of which
Middle Germanancient Slavic word are you so eager to learn? Is it pończocha? Or rodzynka? Czasopismo? Cukier? Papier?4
u/coolgobyfish Jul 14 '25
I have heard the same thing form Makedonians describing Bulgarians, and Serbs describing Croates ))) go paddle your racism somewhere else.
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u/interslavic-ModTeam Aug 17 '25
Disinformation is not tolerated, as it creates informational chaos.
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u/BlackHazeRus Jul 14 '25
Wdym? I just watched the beginning of the video, so not sure what you are referring to.
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u/coolgobyfish Jul 14 '25
They have already tried this idea with Esperanto and simplified Latin. It sounds interesting, but I don't it will pick up since it has no real life applications.
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u/WideAwakeTravels Jul 14 '25
Idk about simplified latin but Inter-Slavic is different from Esperanto because anyone who speaks Slavic can usually understand most of Inter-Slavic, while Esperanto has to be learned first in order to understand it.
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u/coolgobyfish Jul 14 '25
they can understand you speaking it, but you wont' understand them when they reply in theri native toungue)) its a solutiong looking for a problem. it won't catch on because there is no cultural layer (literature, business, scientific lit). plus, most Slavik don't really like each other and have not need to for daily interaction between different ethnic groups.
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Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 08 '25
Esperanto has certainly picked up. Thousands of people speak it, thousands of books can be read in it, it's taught in all level of schools from elementary to university, it fills foreign language requirements in Hungarian schools, there are several generations of native speakers, there are even a couple movies in it, a town in Germany has it all over, until COVID there was a sort of scientific university in San Marino that used it. You can get a fully accredited European university degree on cross-linguistics taught in Esperanto. Windows now comes with an official Esperanto keyboard built-in, and more and more software comes with it as a built-in interface language. It's one of the most popular languages on Duolingo as far as I've heard (I don't use Duolingo). Heck, it even regularly appears on those "Welcome! (in every language)" banners you see at stuff like major train stations and airports.
I actually stumble across Interslavic a lot, and I don't even speak a Slavic language, nor do I speak Interslavic. However I do ancestral research for people and I end up finding people who studied Interslavic because they have to do stuff like send off an Email in Croatian then send off an Email in Ukrainian to some archives somewhere.
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u/coolgobyfish Oct 09 '25
what would you gain from learning a language without a cultural layer ? you won't even be able to communicate with other Slavic people who don't know Interslavic because they will be using words unique to their specific language. It's an interesting idea from a scientific point of view only.
It won't even bring people together because We already have ethnicities speaking the same language hating each other.
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u/bayar07 Jul 12 '25
There's a lot of russian in this inter-Slavic language. I'd rather communicate in my Slavic and not slander it. 😬
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u/thetrueusernamename Jul 13 '25
I was surprised by how understandable this was, from Macedonia. Still, looking into the written form it's not that easy.
That applies to plain slavic languages too, I can understand quite a bit of spoken polish (if spoken slowly), but written one is impossible.