Ondrej Rečnik, Gabriel Svoboda, Jan van Steenbergen, Igor Polyakov, Vojtěch Merunka, Steeven Radzikowski
Date
2006
Setting and usage
Auxiliary language for communication between speakers of different Slavic languages
Users
7,000 (2020)[1] ~ 20,000 (2022)[2]
Purpose
Constructed language
International auxiliary language
A posteriori language
Naturalistic planned language
Zonal auxiliary language
Pan-Slavic language
Interslavic
Writing system
Latin, Cyrillic, Glagolitic
Sources
Old Church Slavonic, modern Slavic languages
Official status
Regulated by
Interslavic Committee[3][4]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
isv
Glottolog
inte1263
IETF
art-x-interslv
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Interslavic (Medžuslovjansky / Меджусловјанскы) is a pan-Slavic auxiliary language. Its purpose is to facilitate communication between speakers of various Slavic languages, as well as to allow people who do not speak a Slavic language to communicate with Slavic speakers by being mutually intelligible with most, if not all, Slavic languages. For Slavs and non-Slavs, it can be used for educational purposes as well.
Interslavic can be classified as a semi-constructed language. It is essentially a modern continuation of Old Church Slavonic, but also draws on the various improvised language forms Slavs have been using for centuries to communicate with Slavs of other nationalities, for example in multi-Slavic environments and on the Internet, providing them with a scientific base. Thus, both grammar and vocabulary are based on common elements between the Slavic languages. Its main focus lies on instant intelligibility rather than easy learning, a balance typical for naturalistic (as opposed to schematic) languages.[5]
The Interslavic project began in 2006 under the name Slovianski. In 2011, Slovianski underwent a thorough reform and merged with two other projects, with the result called "Interslavic", a name that was first proposed by the Czech Ignác Hošek in 1908.[6][7]
As with the languages of the Slavic language family, Interslavic is generally written using either Latin or Cyrillic letters, or on rare occasions the Glagolitic script.
^Kocór, p. 21.
^"«Мы делаем это для будущего». Что такое межславянский язык, зачем его придумали и кто на нём говорит" ["We're doing this for the future." What is the Interslavic language, why was it invented and who speaks it?]. Мел (in Russian). 18 July 2022. Archived from the original on 24 May 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
^"Interslavic – Introduction". steen.free.fr. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
^"CISLa 2018". conference.interslavic-language.org. Archived from the original on December 30, 2018. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
^"INTRODUCTION". Steen.free.fr. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
^Л.П. Рупосова, История межславянского языка, in: Вестник Московского государственного областного университета (Московский государственный областной университет, 2012 no. 1, p. 55. (in Russian)
^Jan van Steenbergen. "Interslavic – Introduction". Steen.free.fr. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
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