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Interslavic: How A Made-Up Slavic Language Made It To The Big Screen

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If you are a Slavic language speaker, you will understand this completely made-up language.
So how do you create a language that can be instantly understood by hundreds of millions of people? Interslavic is even used in movies, like the new Czech war drama The Painted Bird.

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20 Comments

@robertgrzesiak6767 6 years ago

We all speak interslavic on vacation abroad

@paxon57 6 years ago

I'm Polish and this langueage sounds pretty much like me when I'm drunk

@timax4114 7 years ago

We should invest more in this language.

@continuitycommentary 6 years ago

2019: Slavs discover they all have a common language
2020: English becomes obsolete

@kamilzelezniak4270 7 years ago

This language is pretty god damn amazing, I understood everything! I'm Polish by the way.

@AlešPolívka 7 years ago

They should really put that Interslavic language to Duolingo. :D

@jovisha69 7 years ago (edited)

Its working...native Serb here and I understand every single word...

@Mb-sw5py 6 years ago

That is truly amazing. Czech is the only Slavic language I speak (and I’m not a native Slavic language speaker) and I understood absolutely everything he said. Mind blown

@ian1064 6 years ago

Where do I learn this I want to communicate with my teammates on CSGO

@aldinhummor1248 6 years ago

I am from Bosnia( Slavic country) and when Mr. Vojtech spoke i was able to understand him 90 %, its so similar to south slavic

@konstantingeist3587 5 years ago (edited)

I watched the trailer of the movie which featured Interslavic. As a Russian, I understood 100% of what was said. It sounded like Russian spoken with West Slav accent by a dude who loves to show off his Old Church Slavonic skills.

@a.m.rifkia.3rd493 6 years ago

I hope a Slavic country will send an Interslavic song at Eurovision in the upcoming years...

@nderezic 6 years ago (edited)

For a slavic speaker it might be more difficult to learn this language. The boundary is so blurred that it's too easy to slip into your native while trying to speak interslavic. One can't make that mistake while speaking English, since it's so different. Ok, I admit that this might not be such a problem since the idea is not to speak perfectly but to understand each other! P.S. I understood 90% (I speak Croatian)