Interslavic – a common language for all Slavs and a gateway to learning Slavic languages? Medžuslovjansky – spolny jezyk dlja vsih Slovjanov i vrata k učenju slovjanskyh jezykov?
Interslavic is a recently developed constructed language with the goal that everybody who can understand any Slavic real language can also understand this artificial language without ever having learnt it! It is a simplified and “unified” Slavic language (“in the middle of all existing Slavic languages”), which is super easy to learn for native speakers of any Slavic language and which could also be an easy to learn (first) Slavic language for non-Slavs with the advantage that they can immediately communicate with all Slavs.
This is not a language course in Interslavic, rather I want to present to you the history, the concept and the structure of this language and we will discuss if or how Interslavic can actually live up to its goals and potentials. Basic knowledge of any Slavic language is helpful but not required.
Michael Patscheke, *1967, is a language enthusiast from Germany. His main interest is comparative grammar and etymology. He started learning mainly Germanic and Romance languages as a hobby as a high school student and has been fascinated by the links between languages ever since. Apart from German, he is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Italian and has a basic knowledge in several other languages – especially when it comes to the structure and grammar. When starting his first Slavic language he came across Interslavic…
This video was recorded at the Polyglot Gathering 2022 ([ Ссылка ]).
