OSloJ - Obecni Slovanski Jazik
"You fucking donkey!" -- Gordon Ramsay, also Shrek probably
Welcome to Jackass
Novaja-Semlja-fjordene
Pons asinorum GeSeL <-> Budhót'n
Outline
This is a total conversion of GeSeL and a simplified version of Neogetmanic, which itself is a description of my non-literary variety of Czech, acting like some sort of satire on Slavic languages. Visual appearance is close to a je-kavian Slovene with the option of volapük encoding. Unlike Interslavic, this zonlang is supposed to be more playful and filled with memes. Unlike Budhót'n, the orthography is dead simple, and the lexicon doesn't deal with non-Slavic words.
This semi-constructed zonal language specification is written in English, as it has a very simplified Slavic grammar, which non-Slavs may have the possibility to fathom.
In the Getmanian ecosystem, OSloJ serves as a donkey's bridge (using the Czech meaning) to Budhót'nska. It elaborates on the spelling reform Gudhotn by reforming the grammar too, and makes the GeSeL dialect Slavitic come alive with a more fitting grammar. The lexicon, which is in way more advanced stage at Budhót'n side, is to be borrowed in its entirety with some custom thematic jackassery. Since the V (slaVic) root pack for GeSeL is still nonexistent, it's very likely that it will be algorithmically derived from Budhót'n's lexicon too. Some of the derived lexicon will serve as a base for Satemic, whill will take additional sources from Lithuaninan and Sanskrit.
.···········> Neogetmanic <- Palaeogetmanic
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GeSeL -> Slavitic -> OSloJ <- Gudhotn <- Budhót'n
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Satemic
Depending on the orthography, there are some variants:
* DOSloJ - underlying ASCII form for DOS and databases, not GeSeL-compatible
* mainline OSloJ - QWX are shown as ČŠŽ for aesthetic reasons
* BuSloJ - interface to Gudhót'n and Budhót'n, only consonant accents, acutes
* VOSloJ - "Visual OSloJ", preference for vowel accents, no acutes
* CySloJ, GreSloJ, ArSloJ, GruSloJ, RuSloJ, GlaSloJ - alternate scripts
Alphabets
Compared to GeSeL, certain letters have been modified:
* J has the sound of former Y, as in Esperanto and Slavic languages, and also acts as a palatalizer
* Q has the sound of former J in unvoiced plosive form, that is Č in most Slavic languages and usually CH in English, being reminiscent of cyrillic Ч in lowercase
* W has the sound of former X in unvoiced form, to restore the historical Shin and to align with cyrillic Ш
* X has now only the voiced form sound, and looks like cyrillic Ж
* Y is reserved for Schwa and Yers, like Bulgarian Ъ
Therefore there is no longer any representation for Qaf, which is flattened into KV, and Waw or Wynn, which is flattened into V. Thorn and Eth may not necessarily be transcribed as C.
QWX can be written ČŠŽ for increased familiarity, however Latin-1 has only ǧ². Collation order remains unaffected because this is a visual hack.
There are special semi-contraptions, mostly related to heavy iotaion and palatalization in Slavic languages, with corresponding non-ASCII letters:
DZ, DX; DJ, LJ, NJ, RJ, TJ; JA, JE, JI, JO, JU, JY
Ʒ , Ǯ ; Ď , Ľ , Ň , Ř , Ť ; Ǎ , Ě , Ǐ , Ǒ , Ǔ , Y̌
Ѕ , Џ ; Ђ , Љ , Њ , Ҏ , Ћ ; Я , Е , І , Ё , Ю , Ӥ
AA, EE, II, OO, UU, YY; RR, LL;JAA,JEE,JII,JOO,JUU,JYY;RJJ,LJJ,RRJ,LLJ
Á , É , Í , Ó , Ú , Ý ; Ŕ , Ĺ ; Ǎ́ , Ě́ , Ǐ́ , Ǒ́ , Ǔ́ , Y̌́ ; Ř́ , Ľ́ , Ŕ̌ , Ĺ̌
А́ , Э́ , И́ , О́ , У́ , Ъ́ ; Р́ , Л́ ; Я́ , Е́ , І́ , Ё́ , Ю́ , Ӥ́ ; Ҏ́ , Љ́ , Р́Ь, Л́Ь
Iotated vowels have priority to align with Cyrillic. If limited to Windows Latin, place caron over consonants when caron can't be placed on top of vowel, which should be possible thanks to Pinyin. Ř is not supposed to be the West Slavic one (rjeka = rěka = řeka). Ľ is supposed to have a caron over it, if it looks like an acute or apostrophe, that font sucks, same goes for lowercase ľ,ď,ť. Alternative accents can be used as long as they don't conflict with acute and apostrophe, detailed later.
Y̌, Ǎ́ thru Y̌́, Ř́, and Ľ́ are theoretical. Schwa is not usually iotated, and there is no orthography level to use both acutes like BuSloJ and vowel carons like VOSloJ (BuVOSloJ?). Vocalic and let alone long Ř and Ľ are purely fictious in the context of this language, but may be useful in BuSLoJ. Besides, their support is quite lackluster, as they require combining accents. Consolas under Win11 in the Blogger editing window does support them quite well, though.
Certain Slavic language make use of -W class of diphtongs AU, EU, IU, OU. These are flattened into AV, EV, IV, OV (avto, evro). They aren't diphthongs accross morphological borders. OU is often replaced with OJ (ženoj) or something else.
Due to a convenient legacy feature, H doubles for both H and KH, as well as G doubles for both G and GH. Certain Slavic have changed G into H, which OSLoJ doesn't. This contributes to a Yugoslav and Polish feel at the expense of Czech and Ukrainian feel. Suggested compromise pronounciation of G would be GH, which is found in Arabic and maybe French and is a sonorant.
Glottal stop (') isn't used phonemically, acts more like punctuation. R and L can be vocalic. In some Slavic languages, M is supposedly vocalic in the numerals 7 and 8, but no one actually pronounces them like that. Vowel length is not marked, like in South Slavic, but marks do exist for onomatopoeia and BuSloJ. All scripts shall use the acute, if that unsupported somehow, double the letter. Stress is always on 1st syllable so no need to mark it.
Alternative scripts shall respect the phonetic value and may assign special characters to the semi-contraptions above. There are 26 mandatory and 13 optional letters for a total of 39 in VOSloJ. In BuSLoJ only 7 of those 13 for subtotal of 33. With the 8 acutes it's grand total of 47, as in AK-47. In BuSLoJ, which doesn't use the caroned vowels, the total is just 41. Don't mind those 10 caron-acute letters, they are mostly for conversions from Neogetmanic and Gudhót'n, and would bring the grand total up to 57.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Č R S T U V Š Ž Y Z Ʒ Ǯ Ď Ľ Ň Ř Ť Ǎ Ě Ǐ Ǒ Ǔ Y̌
А Б Ц Д Э Ф Г Х И Й К Л М Н О П Ч Р С Т У В Ш Ж Ъ З Ѕ Џ Ђ Љ Њ Ҏ Ћ Я Е І Ё Ю Ӥ
Α Β Θ Δ Ε Φ Γ Χ Ι Ϳ Κ Λ Μ Ν Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Ω Υ Ζ Ξ Ψ Η
TODO Armenian
TODO Georgian
ᚨ ᛒ ᚳ ᛞ ᛖ ᚠ ᚷ ᚺ ᛁ ᛇ ᚴ ᛚ ᛗ ᚾ ᛟ ᛈ ᛃ ᚱ ᛋ ᛏ ᚢ ᚹ ᛲ ᛪ ᚣ ᛎ
Ⰰ Ⰱ Ⱌ Ⰴ Ⰵ Ⱇ Ⰳ Ⱈ Ⰹ Ⰻ Ⰽ Ⰾ Ⰿ Ⱀ Ⱁ Ⱂ Ⱍ Ⱃ Ⱄ Ⱅ Ⱆ Ⰲ Ⱋ Ⰶ Ⱏ Ⰸ Ⰷ Ⱟ Ⰼ Ⱑ Ⱖ Ⱓ
Note that in Cyrillic, J is written Й only after a vowel, since for other positions there is a special palatalized or iotated letter. Ď and Ť can be pronounced like soft Ǯ and Č. If the palatalized consonants are unsupported, Ь can be used after consonants (ДЬ, ЛЬ, НЬ, РЬ, ТЬ). If the iotated vowels are unsupported, Serbian Ј can be prepended (ЈА, Е, ЈИ, ЈО, ЈУ, ЈЪ), should Й appear too ugly. To save you from typographical horrors like "її", І doesn't need the dots.
Greek is provided for writing before Glagolitic. Someone in the 10th century stole a Kerch amphora from Harun (ΓΟΡΟΥΝΑ), or repurposed one after Harun received the contents, and changed his declined name in Greek letters to mustard (ГОРОУХЩА) in Proto-Cyrillic.
Runic is provided as a method to perform some pagan "črti i rězi" before Slavs were co-opted into Christianity and had to modify Latin or Greek, or watch what Georgians and Armenians were doing. There is evidence Western Slavs near the Thaya river were trying to learn Futhark. There may also be something going on with Alekanovo inscriptions, but that's probably proto-writing like Vinča/Tărtăria. True writing system is something that spreads, and all alphabets, abjads and abugidas come from Proto-Sinaitic, or were at least inspired, depending on the level of creativity involved. Runic doesn't define the optional letters (yet). Germanic languages are not iotation-heavy.
Morphology
OSloJ is back from transfixive to concatenative.
Nouns
There are still genders, but at least it's not an utter chaos like Neogetmanic. Ideally, each case would have the same ending in all declinations.
Neuter and Indeterminate
town sea sign
1 sjelo morje znamenje
2 sjela morja znamenje
3 sjelu morju znamenje
4 sjelo morje znamenje
5 sjelo morje znamenje
6 sjelu morju znamenje
7 sjelom morjom znamenjem
1 sjela morje znamenje
2 sjel morji znamenje
3 sjelam morjim znamenjem
4 sjela morje znamenje
5 sjela morje znamenje
6 sjelah morjah znamenjah
7 sjelama morjama znamenjema
Words like kurje (chicken) decline like morje in singular, but sjela in plural. The -et- infix seen in many Slavic languages is removed. Indeterminate nouns use the pattern morje.
Feminine
woman rose song bone
1 žena ruža pisenj kost
2 ženi ruže pisnji kostji
3 ženje ruži pisnji kostji
4 ženu ružu pisenj kost
5 ženo ružo pisnji kostji
6 ženje ruži pisnji kostji
7 ženoj ružoj pisnjoj kostjoj
1 ženi ruže pisnje kostji
2 žen ruži pisnji kostji
3 ženam ružim pisnjim kostjim
4 ženi ruže pisnje kostji
5 ženi ruže pisnje kostji
6 ženah ružih pisnjih kostjih
7 ženama ružema pisnjema kostjima
Pisenj and kost could be merged, were it not for the fact that pisenj drops the E because it's really a yeri. I have to resist the urge of making the instumental plural of kost kostma to maintain simplicity.
Masculine
Is divided into animate and inanimate. Basically the only difference is that animate has the accusative same as genitive, and inanimate same as nominative. There is also a zombie masculine sudca where all 3 cases are the same. Predseda is a transgender Feminine-to-Masculine.
sir castle man machine donkey chairman judge
1 pan grad muž stroj osel predseda sudca
2 pana grada muža stroja osla predsedi sudca
3 panu gradu mužu stroju osloj predsedoj sudci
4 pana grad muža stroj osla predsedu sudca
5 pane grade muži stroji osle predsedo sudca
6 panu gradu muži stroji osloj predsedoj sudci
7 panom gradom mužom strojom oslom predsedoj sudcom
1 panji gradi muži stroje osloj predsedoj sudci
2 panu gradu mužu stroju osloj predsedu sudcu
3 panom gradom mužom strojom oslom predsedom sudcom
4 pani gradi muže stroje osli predsedi sudce
5 panji gradi muži stroje osloj predsedoj sudci
6 panoh gradoh mužoh strojoh osloh predsedoh sudcoh
7 panama gradama mužema strojema oslama predsedama sudcema
As you can see, OSloJ means "to the donkey" or "donkeys". More loosely, "dobrodošli v osloj" means "welcome to jackass". The osel pattern contains alternatives to pan, and drops an E, just like the pisenj pattern over on the feminine side. Again I have to resist the urge to make instumental plural of stroj strojma to maintain simplicity and leave that to Neogetmanic.
OSloJ also leans quite heavily towards the -om ending. This is to facilitate meditation - kvjetOMMM lotosovOMMM. Atheism doesn't exclude nontheist religions, and that's why the 2nd largest religion in the Atheism capital of Europe, Czechia, is Buddhism (or maybe Jediism if enough people make fun of the census).
Adjectives
They both decline, grade, and have gender. Not all forms are distinct, especially plural is identical for all genders, which suggests declination is a decorative façade. The 2nd grade consists only of infix -š-, and the 3rd grade is just naj- prefix. Not nearly as horrible as verbs.
young younger
1 mladoj mlada mlade mladši mladši mladši
2 mladego mlade mladego mladšego mladše mladšego
3 mlademu* mlade mlademu mladšemu* mladše mladšemu
4 mladego* mladu mlade mladšego* mladšu mladše
5 mladoj mlada mlade mladši mladši mladše
6 mladom mlade mladom mladšom mladše mladšom
7 mladom mladoj mladom mladšom mladšoj mladšom
1 mladi mladši
2 mladih mladših
3 mladim mladšim
4 mladi mladši
5 mladi mladši
6 mladih mladših
7 mladima mladšima
* mlad(š)oj for animate dative (mladoj osloj) and inanimate accusative
spring *springer
1 jarni jarni jarni jarnjejši jarnjejši jarnjejši
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3
4
5
6
7
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Not all adjectives necessarily grade, some don't make logical sense to do so. Possesive adjectives however never grade.
1 otca otca otca matčin matčina matčino
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3
4
5
6
7
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3
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5
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7
Pronouns
ja mi
ti vi
on oni
ona
ono
one
"One" can be used either for 4th person, transgender, or a gender unknown at the time of writing. The declination of agreeing sentence elements is the same as for neuter.
1 ja ti on ona ono one mi vi oni
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3
4
5
6
7
moj naš
tvoj vaš
jeho jih
jeji
ho
jejo
1 moj tvoj jeho jeji ho jejo naš vaš jih
2
3
4
5
6
7
Interrogative pronons are used as a help for determining the correct case. There is also a special reflexive "self" pronoun.
who what which which one whose self
1 kto čo kakoj kaki kteroj kteri či -
2 kogo čego sa
3 komu čomu si
4 kogo čo sa
5 - - -
6 o kom o čom sě
7 kim čim soj
Interrogative pronouns for adverbs: kterak, kak, kama.
Numbers
To save brain resources, numerals do not decline. Also no mixed endian.
jedan/raz dva tri štiri pjatj šest sedem vosem devjatj deset
weak LE: jedanadeset dvanadeset trinadeset štirinadeset pjatjnadeset šestnadeset sedemnadeset vosemnadeset devjatjnadeset dvadeset/desetnadeset
BE: deset jedan ... deset devjatj
BE: dva deset, dva deset jedan, ..., dva deset devjatj, tri deset, ..., devjatj deset
LE: jedanadvadeset, dvaadvadeset, ...
BE: sto, dve sto, deset sto, deset jedan sto, devjatj deset devjatj sto
LE: devjatjadevjatjdeset a devjatjadevjatjdeset sto
tjiseč, miriada, lah, milijon, kror, mirijon, milijarda
Long system is preferred, but between milliard (billion in short system or ten myrions in myriad-based long system) and quintilliard (decillion in short system), SI units are preferable.
deka, hekto, kilo, mirija, mega, giga, tera, peta, eksa, zeta, jota, rona, kveta
deci, centi, mili, mirijo, mikro, nano, piko, femto, ato, zepto, jokto, ronto, kvekto
Binary prefixes:
16 128 1024 16384 1048576 2^30 2^40 2^50 2^60 2^70 2^80 2^90 2^100
debi, hebi, kibi, mirbi, mebi, gibi, tebi, pebi, ebi, zebi, jobi, robi, kvebi
We still need 2 more prefixes to reach 2^128, currently with SI as is the memory limit of 128-bit memory addressing is 340282366 kvetabajtu or 3,403e38 or 268435456 kvebibajtu.
Above SI units, scientific notation is preferable.
jedan e sto (gugol)
(fractions TODO)
Verbs
There are like 5 verb conjugation classes in Slavic languages with each having multiple patterns. The tenses are slightly more regular. Aorist and imperfectum are imported from Serbochroatian and Lausatian. These have been missing to me in Czech since I got a firm grasp of the English tense system, and are also gender-invariant.
Person, Number, Tense, Indicative/Conditional/Imperative, Active/Passive, Aspect
Actually Czech has been becoming quite analytical with the verbs, there are many helping verbs for some of the more obscure tenses.
1
2
3
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2
3
Adverbs
Adverbs only grade.
-nje -njej nej-njej
Prepositions
There are some nonsyllabic prepostions that phonetically glue onto the following word. They all have a syllabic variant with a preceding I.
k o s u v z
ik is iv iz
Syllabic prepositions tend to eat the stress of the following word. This may be the reason why it's considered bad typographic practice to end lines with prepositions. Furthermore the lack of lack of stess at the beginning is bad for writing iambic pentameters, but iamb sucks, dactyl-trochee rules. Same goes for GeSeL.
Conjunctions
NOT ne
AND a i
OR či
XOR abo
IMP diž - tak
PMI diž
EQV prted
Conditional clauses can be made with ne - či, like !a || b, and equivalence clauses with ne-či-a-ne-druge-či-prve, like (!a || b) && (!b || a). This is more convenient than Hilbert system.
Particles
-li - if
za - for, yea
jo - yeah
da - yes
ne - no
njet - not, ain't
proti - against, nay
kurva - universal swear word
pjerdol - another universal swear word
Most fucking language learning courses tryna be so fucking posh and don't teach how to fucking swear, but if you fucking learn the fucking swear words among the first fucking words, you can fucking achieve real fucking spoken language comprehension of up to 50 fucking % straight fucking away, especially if you fucking travel to fucking Poland.
There's 12x fucking in a 57-word paragraph, that makes 21 % of words alone. Posh bourgeoisie may complain about poor vocabulary, but you have just started learning, and if you later go full Oxford debate on the NPC normies all around there, they wouldn't understand you anyway. More often than not, natives aren't C1 or C2 level in any language.
Syntax
For legacy reasons as well as my personal preference, OSloJ is still SOV. This also enables Reverse Polish Notation, assuming human brain has a decent stack size. Questions are VSO, commands are SVO.
Osel čevapi jedol.
Jedol osel čevapi?
Osle, jez čevapi!
Vocabulary
To conserve brain capacity, OSloJ is somewhat oligosynthetic in addition to being flective. There are only genuine Slavic roots, which just so happen to be oddly similar to Sanskrit.
Single letter words
These are: a, ˇa, e, ě, i, ˇi, k, o, ˇo, č, s, u, ˇu, v, š, y, z.
a, e, i, o, u, y - letter names
ˇa, ě, ˇi, ˇo, ˇu - pronouns
k, o, s, u, v, z - prepositions
a, i - conjunctions
ě - verb
ˇo - particle
a, e, o, y, č, š - interjections
Months
There are 2 systems, Slavic and Latin one. The Slavic one has been specifically mixed up so that no misunderstanding can take place amongst Baltoslavs still using them. There are 4 endings: en, anj, enj, ik. The Latin one is mostly taken from Slovak, with some more Latin forms to utilize the special declination (marta, julia, augusta), and December with some Russian flavor due to Dekabrists.
However in practice months are referred to with their cardinal numbers in nominative. Not to be confused with numbers from the Latinate system.
Cardinal Slavic Latinate English Slavic Sources
prvi leden januar January Czech, Polabian
drugi gromničnik februar February Kashubian
treti sakavik mars March Belarussian
štvrti duben april April Czech
pjati svibanj maj May Croatian
šesti červenj jun June Czech, Ukrainian, Belarussian
sedmi mjodovnik julius July Kashubian
vosmi žnivenj augustus August Belarussian
devjati vrješenj september September Polish, Ukrainian, Belarussian
desati paždžernik oktober October Polish
jedanadesati nazimnik november November Old Sorbian, Polabian
dvanadesati snježanj dekaber December Belarussian
Statistics: 5x Belarussian, 3x Czech, 2x Polabian, 2x Kashubian, 2x Ukrainian, 2x Polish, 2x Old Sorbian, 1x Croatian
Praise be to Belarussian, but the worst situation was with November. Also see (in Czech): https://getmania.blogspot.com/2022/05/slovansky-kalendarni-pizdec.html
Days of Week
Compared to Interslavic, this is again more Slovak. Muslims may call Friday džuma. Pagan god days are also available, in Western, Eastern, and Germanic variant. Since OSloJ isn't intended to compete with Russian and Germans are guilty of exterminating Polabians and Pommerians, the Western set is preferred.
pondjelok, utorok, srjeda, štvrtok, pjatok, šabat, nedjelja
devanok, radgoštok, velesok, perunok, ladok, moranok, dažbožok
hortok, svarožok, velesok, perunok, mokošek, stribožok, dažbožok
mesjacok, tirok, odinok, torok, frejok, vsjitok, slunek
Budhót'n words
Only formal forms, only Slavic ethymology. About 5000 expected.
Interslavic words
Language purism mode. Barevna, njet kolorovana ptica.
GeSeL-V (Slavitic) words
Eternally pending.
