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As a speaker of Croatian (southern Slavic) and Ukrainian (western Slavic), both Slavio and InterSlavic are bad from the Croatian POW, but InterSlavic is definit
by ivoras 5y ago
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.
- ajuc 5y agoUkrainian is eastern Slavic though? As a speaker of Polish (western Slavic) reasonably familiar with Ukrainian I find InterSlavic and madzuslovanski (or whatever it's spelled) much better than this Slavio.
- romwell 5y agoAs a Ukrainian & Russian speaker, I find Polish intelligelible, and Polish people generally understand me when I speak Ukrainian. The languages are much closer than any of them is to Russian.
- drran 5y agoUkrainian is a Slavic language. It's average of language spoken by 9 tribes with light influence of ancient Greek from Crimea and Byzantine, with almost no German and Latin influence, because they are proxied by Slavic neighborhoods. Greeks influenced Ukrainian language indirectly: via songs. When Ukrainian salt traders (chumaks, чумаки) visited Crimea, they also picked fresh songs to sing when traveling, and then they spread those new song all over Ukraine. Often, chumaks based their songs on Greek songs, because ancient Greeks were much better in music. Chumaks also created portable copy of harp, which they called «bandura» («big thing»), which then used for hundreds of years.
- wheelerof4te 5y agoInterslavic seems just as understandable to me. Sometimes I wish all slavic people had one country, one language. Let's call it Slavia.
- medo-bear 5y agodraw a possible map of Slavia and see it from a perspective of neighbouring non-Slavic countries. would you find such a political structure threatening? this is the reason i think it would be a bad idea. what would be nice in my opinion is a larger inter-slavic cultural exchange: in academic research, text books, litterature, music, film, etc
- wheelerof4te 5y agoThey find us treatening even now. But yes, cultural exchange can be a good first step.
- vkou 5y agoI don't know, I think after two decades of Cold War II, Western Europe will warm up to Slavs living east of Bialystok. Nothing brings people closer together than a common enemy. [1] [1] See: The Brits and the French, the French and the Germans, etc, etc.
- drno123 5y agoWe had Yugoslavia, for southern Slavic people. Didn’t work out.
- wheelerof4te 5y agoIt did not work out because the binding ideology wasn't pan-slavism, but rather bad mix of communism and socialism. Also, instead of returning to our root slavic religion, we got atheism. Without any form of religion, people can not feel that deep bond. Especially Slavic people, who are naturaly very religious. Yugoslavia was a mistake, but not for reasons you might think.
- zozbot234 5y agoI'm pretty sure that "returning to the root Slavic religion" would involve offering massive cow sacrifices to the thunder god Perun in exchange for long life and prosperity. Not sure if that's what you had in mind, though!
- medo-bear 5y agoits certainly strange but im not sure if "bad" is fair here. what i can say is that i understood what was being said on very first reading for both. i imagine if travelling to poland or russia and seeing instructions written in slovio/inter-slavic would be quite easy to follow
- gnulinux 5y agoJust a nitpick: Ukrainian is Eastern Slavic.