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Lithuanian and Latvian is not slavic and Slovio would not be understood by their native speakers.
by greencore 5y ago
Lithuanian and Latvian is not slavic and Slovio would not be understood by their native speakers.
- zozbot234 5y agoLithuanian and Latvian are in the Baltic language family which shares a direct ancestor with the Slavic (Balto-Slavic languages). (The Germanic and Italo-Celtic languages are in the closest "sibling" branch to Balto-Slavic). So it's not impossible for an interlanguage to be understood by both Baltic and Slavic speakers.
- ggx2 5y agoMy 2c: I speak Latvian, russian and a bit of Polish. I could easily imagine a Slavic interlanguage, as knowing russian helped a lot with Polish. Learning russian took a lot of effort, though. So, besides having a bunch of shared nouns, adding Baltic languages to the mix does not make much sense IMO. Despite having a shared ancestor (in theory), Baltic languages are not very mutually intelligible with Slavic. Edit: And also, if it does take on this impossible mission, it should at least be called Balto-Slovio.
- laurynasl 5y agoLithuanian native speaker here. Reading the examples in the site I couldn't understand anything, and it sounds nothing like Lithuanian or Latvian. Being able to understand Russian to some extent didn't help either. I find it hard to imagine such a language, as the languages really are far off from each other.
- int_19h 5y agoProto-Baltic and Proto-Slavic have separated much, much earlier than various Slavic language families. Balto-Slavic is typically dated to somewhere between 3000-1000 BCE. On the other hand, the Common Slavic period is 600-1000 CE (and mutual intelligibility went on even longer). The degree of similarity between the languages is simply not comparable.