There is a printed monograph (a book) in English titled: "NEOSLAVONIC ZONAL CONSTRUCTED LANGUAGE"

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Welcome to our on-line English tutorial of the Neoslavonic language (NS), which is a part of the non-commercial Interslavic language project of the interslavic community. Neoslavonic (Interslavic) is a "zonal constructed language" intended 
to facilitate communication among the speakers and writers of the modern day Slavic languages - Belorussian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Kashubian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Polish, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian (i.e. Lusatian, Wendish), Ukrainian and their various dialects - all of which derive from an original "Proto-Slavic" tongue, which over thousands of years, morphed into very divergent "dialects," each becoming a separate language unto itself.

Over half of Europe's territory is inhabited by Slavic-speaking communities; moreover, the worldwide population of people of Slavic descent is estimated to be about 400 million. 

European countries with Slavic as an official language (from Wikimedia)

Because our Slavic languages all derive from that common Proto-Slavic tongue, knowledge of one Slavic language will often allow one to have at least a rough understanding of text written in another Slavic language - but not sufficiently enough to achieve a strong comprehension. This fact has inspired linguists and others over the centuries to attempt to create a universal Slavic language that would be more understandable to all Slavs.  Among these include Old Church Slavonic, developed in the 9th century by two Byzantine Greek missionaries and co-patrons saints of the Europe, the brothers Konstantinos (Cyril) and Methodios of Salonica, as well as dozens of other projects since then. What they have in common is that they are all based on the assumption that the Slavic languages are similar enough to make such an auxiliary language possible at all.  




Our memorandum says, that our Interslavic language project is based exclusively on forms that exist throughout the Slavic language continuum, and Esperanto-like artificiality is carefully avoided: every word stem, grammatical ending or morphological element can be found in several Slavic languages, ideally in all of them. This design strategy locates Interslavic language at the very center of the living Slavic languages.

Why do we need an artificial inter-Slavic language?

We know



Our experience is that speakers of Slavic languages tend to perceive Neoslavonic/Interslavic language as either an ancient or remote dialect of their own native language, or a neighboring language closely related to their own. People are often surprised how much they can understand of it.

Spoken languages are living things and we know that no conlang (Esperanto, Interlingua, ...) or reconstructed modern national language (Slovak, Hebrew, Indonesian, ...) in the world is used in the exactly same form as when it was first published. Therefore we welcome anybody – linguist, non-linguist, native speaker, non-native speaker – to join our ranks and work with us on this great task!