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{{Infobox Language
|name=Slovio/Словио
|caption=Flag
|image=[[Image:Flaga Slowian.jpg|150px|center|Pan-Slavic flag, also used as Slovio flag]]
|creator=[[Mark Hucko]]
|date=[[2001]]
|speakers=unknown
|setting=[[International auxiliary language]], designed for native speakers of [[Slavic languages]]
|fam2=[[international auxiliary language|auxiliary language]]
|posteriori=[[a posteriori language]] based on the [[Slavic languages]]}}

'''Slovio''' is a written and spoken [[constructed language]] created by [[Switzerland|Swiss]]-based [[Slovakia|Slovak]] linguist [[Mark Hucko]] and published on the Internet in [[2001]]. Slovio is an [[international auxiliary language]] created to help [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] speakers intercommunicate. 

The name, Slovio, comes from the [[Proto-Slavic language|Proto-Slavic]] ''slovo'' which means "word" and has been retained in similar form in contemporary [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]], [[Croatian language|Croatian]], [[Serbian language|Serbian]], [[Bosnian language|Bosnian]], [[Czech language|Czech]], [[Slovak language|Slovak]], [[Polish language|Polish]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]] and [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]] languages. As of DecemberMay 20056, the dictionary of Slovio contains someover 337,000 entries.

== Characterization ==

The grammar principles of Slovio are similar to [[Esperanto]] (unified noun, adjective and verb endings, no flexion). [[Affix|Affixes]] are used to change the function or meaning of a word. For example, adding ''-ju'' to the end of a word makes it an [[adjective]] to a neighbouring noun. Consequently, there is no need for a strict word sequence:

:''trava zelenju'' - "green grass"
:''zelenju trava'' - "green grass"

The vocabulary is derived from the most common words from [[Slavic languages]]. According to Hucko, Slovio is understandable by more than 400 million people (Slavic-speaking) throughout the world without any prior study of the language. 

However, critics say that such intelligibility is far from granted, especially for speakers of [[West Slavic languages]] (Polish, Czech and Slovak). For example, the Slovio words "sobak" (dog), "tper" (now), "gvorit" (to speak) and "pecxen" (liver) are very similar to the Russian words "sobaka", "teper'", "govorit'" and "pyechen'", but have different roots in the Polish, Czech and Slovak languages. The speakers of these languages can usually only make limited sense of basic phrao overcome this, sometimes synonyms are usesd, comprehension of complex or abstract concepts is very unlikelye.g. the word "pes" for (dog).

== Alphabet ==

Slovio can be written using the [[Latin alphabet|Latin]] letters, as well as using [[Cyrillic alphabet|Cyrillic]] letters. The Slovio letters lack any diacritic markings. 

(contracted; show full)[[pt:Slovio]]
[[ru:Словио]]
[[sk:Slovio]]
[[sl:Slovio]]
[[sr:Словио]]
[[fi:Slovio]]
[[sv:Slovio]]
[[uk:Словіо]]