Romanslavic

Romanslavic is a hybrid Romance-Slavic language, rooted both in Old Church Slavonic and Latin branches. Basically, it uses Romance radicals in a strong Slavic sounding. Unlike Romanian, it incorporates more Slavic loans in its grammar and vocabulary (such as the lack of articles) and may not seem comprehensible to all Romance-language speakers at first sight. Within its fictitious universe, Romanslavic is spoken mainly in Volkarina (where it’s called volkarinski) and constituent republics of former Romanslavia (Latinslavija).

Romanslavic was developed by screenwriter Pedro Aguiar, an amateur conlanger, for a couple of his screenplays.

Volkarinian Romanslavic uses Cyrillic alphabet, whilst all variants else use Roman script (with the additional characters used by Northern Slavic languages). When transliterating, Volkarinians prefer to use Y for “short i” and dígraph KH for “voiced h”, but other speakers use J and X, respectively.

There’s a difference in pronunciation between urban, cosmopolitan accent in Prastova and Xristina (the largest cities in Volkarina) and that of the countryside, as well as other regions where Romanslavic is spoken: while the earliests recognize J as a semivowel “i” sound and V as a semivowel “u”, the latter pronounce them as “zh” and “v”, respectively. Romanslavic also has the “þ” or “th” (thorn) consonant, just like in English.

According to its own fictitious history, Romanslavic has very recent normatization, since until the end of the 19th century, its usage was forbidden by the Ottomans and Russians. While these empires ruled Romanslavia, the language had only oral registry. Only after the 1860s, a group of scholars in Western Europe Ocidental would have begun registering the first written records of the language. An ancient variant can also be found among peasant communities who live in Romanslavian plains.

Grammar

 * 1) The words have Romance radicals, whenever possible and euphonic.
 * 2) There are no articles.
 * 3) There are two genders - male and female - and two numbers - singular and plural. These are applied only for nouns and pronouns. Adjetives follow no gender.
 * 4) Nouns ending in consonants or e are male; when ending in other vowel except e, they are female.
 * 5) Plural (of nouns) is made by adding an i to nouns ending in consonants, and an je to those ending in vowels; adjectives, pronouns, and adverbs do not declinse in gender or number.
 * 6) Cases are nominative, genitive (adding sufix –av), instrumentative (adding sufixo –vak) and acusative (adding sufix –le). All else use prepositions.
 * 7) When conjugating first person in plural (we = mje), one must add an “u” if it's inclusive (in other words, if the speaker includes himself among the subject of the sentence).