Interslavic

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Writing System: w:Cyrillic script
Population: 300 million
Genders: 3
Alignment: Nominative-Accusative
Word-order: SVO
Cases: 6
Typology: Fusional
Languages: w:Belarusian language, w:Russian language, w:Ukrainian language, w:Czech language, w:Slovak language, w:Polish language, etc.
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Anthropology

More than almost any other Universal Language, Slavs have a pre-existing unity, and indeed were a common language 1,000 years ago, known as w:Common Slavic and later w:Old Church Slavonic. These language, as well as w:Proto-Slavic are consulted at every stage.

Phonology

Five vowels + /ɪ~ɨ/ p/t/k, b/d/g, f/s/š, h, v/z/ž, c/č, dz/dž, m/n/ñ, r, l, j, ʎ

Orthography

А Б В Г Д Е Ж З И Й К Л М Н О П Р С Т У Ф Х Ц Ч Ш

Morphology

3 genders, 2 numbers, six cases. Adjectives agree in gender, number, and case. The o/e y/i rule

Morphosyntax

Word order is almost free, but most often SVO. Modifiers precede nouns, generally.

Lexicography