Interslavic Language and Presentations at the SLAVNI Festival

The opportunity to speak live with Interslavic speakers from different countries? A possibility to read the newly published fantasy book “Nehaj nesųt nas běle oblåky”?
A presentation about the Interslavic language and literature in Interslavic?
A great Slavic atmosphere?
A chance to broaden your knowledge of Slavic languages?

All of this was present at the SLAVNI Festival, where our Foundation was invited as a guest. At our stand, people could see Interslavic merchandise, learn about the Interslavic language, and even have their name written in Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts!

The festival program also included a presentation about the Interslavic language (naturally, entirely in Interslavic), which was attended by a great many people. We were happy to see the whole room filled with an engaged audience!

At our stand, we also invited a representative from the association Udruga Međuslavenske Kulture from Croatia, who gave a literary analysis of the book “Nehaj nesųt nas běle oblåky”. A big thank you to our colleague for participating!

And above all, a big thank you to the organizer, the Association for the Promotion of Slavic Culture JAWIA!, and to the magazine iSAP – Slavic Press Agency, for inviting us to the festival and for supporting the development of the Interslavic language! We look forward to further cooperation on Slavic projects.

Interslavic Language Resolution 2025

Resolution of the Interslavic Language Committee

Our project is developing rapidly, with many thousands of people interested in it. Last summer, it achieved ISO registration (https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/isv) along with other international standards. The language community is growing: videos, podcasts, music are being made, and many texts are being written.

For this reason, we all need to be remind the true purpose of the Interslavic project, which the members of the Interslavic Language Committee, with the help of other active members of the Interslavic community, have written down on one page.

This resolution explains the social role, programmatic goals, ethical principles, and moral norms of using the Interslavic language as a means of communication and cultural cooperation among Slavic-speaking people.

The resolution also protects the Interslavic language from ideological abuse and addresses the linguistic standard of the Interslavic language. We kindly ask all dear members and enthusiasts of the Interslavic community to respect this resolution and help spread it further.

Historical document: Memorandum of the Interslavic Community on the Languages Novoslověnski, Slovianski and Slovio
(https://interslavic.news/116) from September 2011, when work on the present Interslavic language began.

Based on this memorandum, in 2017 we created the unified Interslavic language and established the Interslavic Language Committee.

Historical document: Interslavic Manifesto 2019 (https://interslavic-language.org/manifesto) from 2019.

Signed by Members of the Interslavic Language Committee:

  • Johannes Hendrik van Steenbergen
    Jan from the Netherlands
  • Vojtěch Merunka
    Vojta from Czechia
  • Ярослав Сергєєв
    Jaroslav from Ukraine
  • Michał Swat
    Mihal from Poland
  • Roberto Lombino
    Roberto from Czechia

Reportage with us on national Czech TV

The news about the Interslavic language is spreading not only on the internet, but also in official European media!

On April 13, 2025, a report about the Interslavic language was broadcast on the first channel of Czech Television (Česká Televize 1), in the program “Gejzír”, in which the guests included, among others, members of our Foundation from the Czech Republic and other good colleagues of ours.

Many thanks to Dr. Vojtěch Merunka for his help in organizing the reportage!

On the Interslavic Language Channel, you can also see bonus material: a conversation we recorded in the studio of Czech Television.

Links to the report:

Intercultural Integration – Interslavic Singing in Poznań

Recently at the cultural center “Pireus”, a big Interslavic gathering took place in Poznań.

Our guests were: Poles, Czechs, Belarusians, and Ukrainians. We showed that the language barrier between us is very thin, and that the integration of immigrants and refugees in the European Union can also be achieved with the help of our project.

Fantastic—how many possibilities the Interslavic language provides!

People made new connections, sang songs in various Slavic languages, and of course in Interslavic, ate knedliky, and generally had a good evening. 🙂

To not miss future gatherings, follow the Interslavic pages on Facebook! 😉

Thanks to the people from the organization Pakoj_202 for participating!

Below is a video from one of the participants:

Meeting with Jan van Steenbergen, an Interslavic language creator

On August 25, 2024, there was an Interslavic meeting in the Polish city of Poznań. Fourteen people attended (half of them Interslavic speakers): Czechs, Poles, Ukrainians, and Jan van Steenbergen, one of the creators of the language, also came. First, they sat in the restaurant “Wiejskie Jadło” near the Old Market Square, and there were serious and interesting grammatical conversations. Then they went to the Belarusian pub “MY” on Freda Street. Naturally, there was eating, singing, playing the guitar, and, above all, great fun. The last participants left each other at 3:00 AM. We think everyone has many good memories of this meeting. We thank all participants. We wish you much success and look forward to future meetings!

Interslavic gathering in Wrocław

Once more we could experience that the Interslavic language community is growing more and more. Under the auspices of the InterSlavic Linguistic Forum Foundation and in a friendly atmosphere we had an opportunity to promote the deep sense of international and inter-lingual dialogue and cooperation as people from Czechia, Poland and Ukraine joined, and our meeting received attention also from people passing by.

Interslavic language in a Warsaw University podcast

Logo of the Warsaw University

It was a great pleasure for us to be guests on the Radio Kampus 97.1 FM podcast. You can listen there about the history of the Interslavic language in Interslavic itself, which is one of the results of long-term linguistic comparatistics, which we, in our Foundation, want to take to a higher level.

CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE PODCAST

Second Interslavic Meeting in Poznań

In order to prepare ourselves for the approaching Interslavic Day and the CISLa Conference in Oslo, on 17.03.2024 we had a bit of preparation from the practical linguistic side – some of the participants had the opportunity to pronounce their first Interslavic sentences in an eye-to-eye conversation.

In the meantime the cooperation within the non-formal Interslavic Academy, with the associations & foundations from Croatia, Serbia, Czechia and Norway proceeds.

We are ready for new challenges!