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Slevian is a costructed language, created to be related to the Slavic languages' family.

Differently from most Slavic languages, but similar to Bulgarian and Macedonian languages, it losts all the original cases, and developed a definite and indefinite article (but set before its substantive). Differently from Bulgarian and Macedonian it has a semplified verbal system.

It is written with the Latin Alphabet, but can be adapted to the Cyrillic one.

Phonology

Vowels

Slevian has a reduced vocalic system, with only six vowels:

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
Close	i   ɨ u ɛ ɔ      a
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio- dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	p b		t d				k ɡ
Nasal	m	ɱ	n			ɲ
Vibrant			r
Fricative		f v		s z	ʃ ʒ
Affricate				ʦ	ʧ
Approximant						j	ɰ
Lateral approximant			l

Alphabet

IPA consonant	Latin
/p/	p
/b/	b
/t/	t
/d/	d
/k/	k
/g/	g
/m/	m
/n/	n
/ʦ/	c
/ʧ/	č
/ʒ/	ž
/f/	f
/v/	v
/s/	s
/z/	z
/ʃ/	š
/r/	r
/j/	j
/ɰ/	u
/l/	l

Š, ž, č, s, z, l, j are called soft consonants and they tend to modify the use of the morphological endings.

IPA vowel	Latin
/i/	i
/ɨ/	y
/u/	u
/ɛ/	e
/a/	a
/ɔ/	o

Morphology

Slevian has a semplified morphology, in contrast with other Slavic languages.

Substantives

Substantives have three genres (masculine, feminine and neuter) and two numbers (singular and 'plural)

Number

Substantives form their plural by modifying their endings oder by adding a new one:

• If they end with normal consonants, they add -y
• If they end with -š, -ž, -č, -s, -z, -l, -j (called soft consonants): they add -i
• If they end with -a, -e, -u: they drop these vowels and add -y
• If -a, -e, -u, are preceded by a soft consonant, they add -i instead of -y.
• If they end with -o: they drop it and add -a
• If they end with -ja, -je: they drop them and add -ji

Gender

Slevian substantives can be masculine, feminine or neuter.

• If the substantive ends with a consonant, it is masculine
• If it ends with -a, it is feminine
• If it ends with -o, it is neuter
• If it ends with -e, it can be feminine or neuter:

• Normal consonant + -e, it is neuter
• Soft consonant + -e, it is feminine

The plural substantives have no genre.

Articles

Slevian developed a system of articles, differently from the other Slavic languages, and similar to Bulgarian and Macedonian, but it places its articles before the substantives, as in English and contrary to the two Slavic languages:

Indefinite Articles

	Articles
Masculine	Jedin
Feminine	Jedna
Neuter	Jedno
Plural	Jedny

The plural form is used as the English adjectives some, any.

Definite Articles

	Articles
Masculine	Ton
Feminine	Ta
Neuter	To
Plural	Ti

Slevian has not an independent form for this and that: they are built by adding an adverbial particle to the articles:

• To- + Articles = this
• Tam- + Articles = that

Examples:

• Mjesto = city, neuter

Jedno mjesto = a city

To mjesto = the city

Toto mjesto = this city

Tamto mjesto = that city

Adjectives

Adjectives do agree with their substantives in genre and number. They are placed after before their substantives as in English. The base form is masculine which generally ends with -y or -i, but some adjectives (most of all passive participles) can end with another consonant. To agree, they modify their endings:

• If the root ends with normal consonants, the masculine form is -y
• If the root ends with soft consonants, the masculine form is -i
• To form the feminine, just drop the masculine ending and add -a
• To form the neuter, just drop the masculine ending and add -o
• To form the plural, just drop the masculine ending and add -e

Examples:

• Ton krasny mir = the beautiful world, masculine
• Ta krasna noče = the beautiful night, feminine
• To krasno mjesto = the beautiful city, neuter
• Ti krasne mjesta = the beautiful cities, plural (no genre recognized)

Comparative

To form the comparative degree, drop the masculine ending and add:

	Ending
Masculine	-eji
Feminine	-eja
Neuter	-ejo
Plural	-eje

The comparison is made by the particle čim.

Example:

• Mojo mjesto je krasnejo čim tvojo: My city is more beautiful than yours

Superlative

To form the superlative, place before the declined adjective the particle samej

Example:

• Tota je ta samej interesna kniga mežo toti ktere počital jeso: This is the most interesting book among the ones I read

Pronouns

Personal pronouns

Slevian retains an accusative/object form for the personal pronouns, similar to the difference between the English I / me:

Person	Nominative Subject	Accusative Object
1st sing.	ja	mine
2nd sing.	ty	tibe
3rd. masc.	on	jego
3rd fem.	ona	jeji
3rd neu.	to	to
1st plu.	my	nas
2nd plu.	vy	vas
3rd fem.	oni	ich

As the verbs already show their person with conjugation, the nominative/subject personal pronouns are not very used.

Possessive pronoun/adjectives

Slevian use the same forms for possessive adjectives and pronouns (contrary to English my / mine). They agree with their substantives according to genre and number as adjectives.

Person	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Plural
1st sing.	moj	moja	mojo	moje
2nd sing.	tvoj	tvoja	tvojo	tvoje
3rd. masc.	jevo
3rd fem.	jejo
3rd neu.	togo
1st plu.	naš	naša	našo	naše
2nd plu.	vaš	vaša	vašo	vaše
3rd fem.	jejich

If the subject coincide with the owner, for the 3rd persons you have to use svoj:

Person	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Plural
refl.	svoj	svoja	svojo	svoje

Examples:

• On jede se svoja mašina: He goes with his own car
• On jede s jevo mašina: He goes with his (of another man) car

You can use svoj also with the other person:

• Ja jedu se svoja mašina: I go with my own car
• Ja jedu s moja mašina: I go with my own car

Both sentences are correct.

Interrogative pronouns

• Čto: what?

For the pronoun who there are a subject/nominative form and a separated object/accusative form:

• Kto: who? (subject/nominative)
• Kogo: who(m) (object/accusative, it is used with prepositions)

Gender	Which?
Masculine	kaky
Feminine	kaka
Neuter	kako
Plural	kake

The word for Where has two forms, according if there is a static situation or a motion:

• Gde: where? (state)
• Kud: where? (motion)

Examples:

• Čto maš?: What do you have?
• Kto ješ?: Who are you?
• Kogo ješ povidel?: Who did you see?
• S kogo ješ pogovoril?: Whom did you talk with?
• Kaka kniga ona je počitala?: Which book did she read?
• Gde ješ?: Where are you?
• Kud jdeš?: Where are you going?

Relative pronoun

Gender	That/Which
Masculine	ktery
Feminine	ktera
Neuter	ktero
Plural	ktere

Example:

• Tamta je kniga ktera jeso počital: This is the book (that) I read

Prepositions

Since Slevian does not use any case, it makes use of a lot of prepositions. Main prepositions are: