Slavensk is the Slavic language — the formal system that the Slavic language family is named after. Not a reconstruction of what was spoken, but a specification of what Slavic is. Perfect regularity, zero exceptions, complete transparency. Every word is composed of root + derivation + sound laws. No suppletive forms, no irregular paradigms, no borrowings — only native Slavic morphology, systematized. More regular than Sanskrit itself, Slavensk achieves the vision of Pāṇini: a complete grammatical system where every form is derivable by rule. Built on Proto-Indo-European (PIE) — the reconstructed ancestor of languages from English to Hindi to Russian — Slavensk inherits the full expressive power of this ancient system.
Natural language → Borrowings, irregular paradigms, opaque forms Slavensk → Native roots, perfect regularity, full transparency učitelь = uč- (teach) + -itelь (agent) → "teacher" mǫdrostь = mǫdr- (wise) + -ostь (quality) → "wisdom"
The Vision Realized
For centuries, Slavic scholars dreamed of a unified literary language. Josef Dobrovský reconstructed the common ancestor but could only approximate it with asterisks and question marks. Matija Majar proposed a mutual orthography and compromise language, but compromises are collections, not systems. Ľudovít Štúr gave Slavic names and called for a language of the spirit — but had no mechanism to build one. Vuk Karadžić reformed Serbian with "write as you speak," then watched as each nation's phonetic spelling pulled the family apart.
Danslav Slavenskoj completes their work. Slavensk is not a compromise between living languages, but the source — regularized, systematized, specified. The language Dobrovský sought in the past now exists. The unity Majar and Štúr dreamed of is now achieved. The divergence Karadžić inadvertently caused is now reversible: surface forms vary, but the underlying Slavensk is one.
Dobrovský · Majar · Štúr · Karadžić
Structure
| Property | Value | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Cases | 8 | Ablative restored from PIE; eliminates genitive overload |
| Numbers | 3 | Dual preserved; natural for paired objects (eyes, hands) |
| Genders | 3 | Full PIE system; declension class encodes semantic category |
| Tenses | 6 | Imperfect eliminated; aspect carries the semantic load |
| Moods | 7 | More than Sanskrit; injunctive and benedictive restored |
| Voices | 4 | Middle split into reflexive and benefactive |
| Verb classes | 3 | Simplified from Sanskrit's 10+; all fully regular |
| Syncretism | Zero | Every form distinct; no case/number overlaps |
| Borrowings | None | All vocabulary from native Slavic roots |
Design Principles
- Enforced Regular Evolution — All morphological processes follow strict rules with no exceptions
- No Borrowings — Every vocabulary item is generated from Proto-Slavic roots
- Full Transparency — Every word decomposes into root + derivation + sound laws
- Regular Sound Laws — Proto-forms map to surface forms through consistent transformations
Naming
| Register | Form |
|---|---|
| Cyrillic canonical | Славьнскъ |
| Latin canonical | Slavensk |
| Full form | Jazyk Slavensk / Językъ Славьнскъ |
| Domain | slavensk.com · slavensk.org |
"Germanic" and "Romance" are families, not languages. "Slavic" was the same — until now. Slavensk is the language the family is named after: the Sanskrit of the Slavs.
Quick Reference
Root: √slav- ("glory")
Derivation: slav- + -ьn- + -sk- → slavьnsk-
Romanized: Slavensk (bare stem, no ending)
Parallel: Norsk, Dansk, Svensk, Deutsch
Cyrillic: Славьнскъ
Modern: Славенск
Latin: Slavensk
Full: Jazyk Slavensk
Precedent
Slavensk follows an established pattern: a regularized, literary register claims the family name while vernaculars become "dialects" or "descendants."
| Language | Meaning | Relationship to Family |
|---|---|---|
| Sanskrit | "refined, perfected" | The formalized Indo-Aryan; Prakrits are vernaculars |
| Classical Latin | — | Literary standard; Vulgar Latin yields Romance |
| Hochdeutsch | "High German" | Standard German; other dialects are regional |
| Katharevousa | "purified" | Archaizing Greek standard |
| Slavensk | "glorious" | The formalized Slavic; modern languages are descendants |