# Confederation Slavonic

**Confederation Slavonic**, or *Словѣнскы Iѣзык* (**Slavonic**), sometimes “Conslavonic” (*Консловѣнскы*), is the *de facto* official language of the Free Realms.

### Why do we need a conlang? Why Slavic? How will it get adoption?

* It ties the worldbuilding together: Tolkein wrote his books as background for his conlangs
* It's a great way of diversifying the in-game culture without the baggage of actual different cultures
* It's cool: virtually no other game has this
* Slavic languages are basically mutually intelligible, while different Slavic cultures have quite diverse cultures
* Confederation Slavonic will be intelligible and very intuitive, and super easy to learn for all Slavic-language speakers

### Brief description

Confederation Slavonic is a “creolized” dialect/descendant of the Interslavic constructed language, spoken as a native language by the approximately 1 billion inhabitants of the Confederated Free Realms of Svitania the Uttermost (Вольности Конфедеральни Свитанїе Найдальшей *Vollnosti Konfederallni Svitanije Naidallszei*), and as a second language by another approximately 4 billion. Alongside English, it’s one of the *de facto* official languages of the early 25th-century Confederation.

In-universe, it originated as a novalang championed by the Slavic elements of the League rebellion as an identity marker against the imposition of languages like the Russian-based UNISLAV. The original version, in keeping with the neo-traditionalist ideology of the rebels, had a conservative, “pan-Slavic” phonology and morphology (OOC: this is just "etymological Interslavic")

But by the 25th century a series of mergers and simplifications has led to a distinct Confederation Slavonic language, with some basilectal influence from other Slavic languages like Belarusian.

The main differences from Interslavic are:

* Merger of yuses and yers:
  * \*ě, \*ę, \*ė > ѣ /ʲɛ/
  * \*ȯ > ъ /ɤ/
  * \*ų > у /u/
* Iotated hiatuses transformed into gemination:
  * \*člověčji > чловѣччи
  * \*konji > конни
* Deaffrication and merging of the dž/dź series
  * \*medjunarodny > межународны *mezsunarodny* \[mɛʒunaˈrɔdnɨ]
* "Polish-like" alveolar stop palatalization and i/y neutralization
  * \*sědětji > сѣдѣчи *sėdėczy* \[ɕɛˈdʑɛtʃɨ]
  * **Note on orthography**: even though there are only two phonemes *i* and *y*, Cyrillic script distinguishes between i/и/ы using morphophonemic considerations:
    * и is the “unmarked” i, which is always used after consonants that lack a hard/soft distinction in *native* words (like ч ш к г х), regardless of the actual phonetic realization. In other circumstances, it represents /i/ as opposed to /ɨ/
    * ы is the “hard” i, which represents /ɨ/ in environments where it can contrast with /i/
      * Also marginally used in loanwords to force an \[ɨ] pronunciation, such as in Iыптък *Jyptȯk*, a placename loaned from an extraterrestrial adstratum
    * і, when used as a vowel rather than a palatalization indicator, is used in the following three circumstances:
      * To *force* an /i/ pronunciation in loanwords: АК Тоокаці-Къркланд *Tōkachi-Kirkland Corporation*.
      * To avoid ugliness next to и or й: опій *opium* чій *whose*
        * This generalizes to any ij sequence being written as ій, or ї next to vowels. Свитанїа *Svitanija*
* Rather large number of declinable Latinate loanwords. In particular, there are a few s/t alternations borrowed from Latin that are not found in other Slavic languages.
  * секуритас, секуритаты *security*
  * либертас, либертаты *liberty*
    * За нашы й вашы либертас!
  * виртус, виртута *virtue*
  * целестїaльны *celestial*
  * Секуритатне Силы Премислїе Security Forces of Premislia\*
  * Еклесїальна Унїа Кардашовскы *Ecclesiastical Union of Kardaszovsk*

### Samples

#### Random in-universe stuff

Витамо в Кардашовск --- срѣдищно мѣсто Iужных Звѣздых. \
Vitamo v Kardašovsk --- šedično miesto Južnih Zviezdih. \
\&#xNAN;*Welcome to Kardaszovsk --- the central city of the Southern Stars*

Наступна станицїа: Музей Кардашовског Наслѣдства \
Nastupna stanicija: Muzei Kardašovskog Nasliedestva \
\&#xNAN;*Next station: Kardaszov Heritage Museum*

#### Tower of Babel

И всiа земмiа имѣла iедин iѣзык и подобне слова. \
I vsia zemmia imiela jedin jiezyk i podobne slova.

Але къгда лiуди прѣмѣстилисѣ из възхода, они нашли равнину в краiу Шінар и онде осадилисѣ. \
Ale kygda liudi pšemiestilisie iz vyzhoda, oni našli rauninu v kraju Šinar i onde osadilisie.


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