Slavic constructed languages in the internet age

Bibliographic Data

ID11662999
AuthorsAnna‐Maria Meyer (University of Bamberg, corresponding author), Anna-Maria Meyer (University of Bamberg)
Year2016
Volume40
Issue3
Pages287-315
Publication date2016-09-09
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage Problems & Language Planning (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0272-2690 • E-ISSN: 1569-9889
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/lplp.40.3.05mey
OpenAlexW2520573343
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited6

Slavic constructed languages have been widely neglected by interlinguistics and Slavic linguistics so far; however, the number of projects for a common Slavic language has been growing since the 17th century, beginning with Juraj Križanić’s Ruski jezik (1666) and continuing up to Arnošt Eman Žídek’s Slovan (1940) and beyond. The construction of Slavic languages has recently been experiencing a revival through the spread of the internet since the 1990s. This has manifested itself mainly in three extensively elaborated projects with their own websites and user communities: Slovio (1999), Slovianski (2006) and Novoslovienski (2010). These three projects — one of them schematic, two of them naturalistic — are presented in the historical context of Slavic language construction from the 17th century up to the present and analyzed structurally in terms of their writing systems, their grammars and the composition of their lexicons. Although their chances of implementation in practice in the context of European language policy are currently rather marginal, they should be valued as a unique phenomenon in Slavic cultural history

Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Linguistics · Phenomenon · Slavic languages · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · History · Language and Culture · Linguistic research and analysis · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy

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