'Syrillangan'

Posted by eklas on 21 January 2017 in English.

I came to the conclusion it’s not the best name for Slavic language family, because it doesn’t sound very Slavic and it’s tough to pronounce.

In Czech (Drabantian), it doesn’t even follow the basic rules of spelling:

  • s is followed by y only in certain words with a common root.
  • r is a hard consonant, which means it should always be followed by y.
  • No double l’s.
  • G’s are very sparse.
  • I could settle for Sirylankan, but that sounds even worse. (I associate it with baby care items for some reason.)

So, I played around with words a little and I have three possible substitutions:

  • Slane (Slanic) (Drab.: Slán; the root slan means something salty.)
  • Sleve/Leve (Slevic/Levic) (Drab.: Levan; the root lev means ease or left (direction) in this case, I’m listing both options because Slevan would mean ‘discount man’ in Drabantian.)
  • Lave (Lavic) (Drab.: Lavan; the root lev would mean lion in this case.)

So, vote for your favorites! I like Leve/Levic the best.

Also, please note I definitely do not want to force my opinions on anyone and doing this is completely optional.

Location: Přední Lhota, Kutry, okres Ráj nad Mlžnicí, Drabantia

Discussion

Comment from trabantemnaksiezyc on 21 January 2017 at 10:03

Well… the only one compatibile with Polish “język słowiański” is “Sleve”: “język slewiański”.

Comment from Litvania on 21 January 2017 at 10:10

The same are followed in Litvanian as in Drabantian (duh Slovak=Czech right?) and i myself am not at all satisfied with Syrillangan.

I believe Slevic or Levic are the best, as in Litvanian that would sound more natural:

Leváne

Sleváne

I totally agree with eklas, and i soon planning to change this myself actually.

Comment from eklas on 21 January 2017 at 11:08

trabantemnaksiezyc: Just because it doesn’t sound like the original doesn’t mean it’s incompatible. You can turn all of these words into adjectives.

Litvania: Cool.

Comment from trabantemnaksiezyc on 21 January 2017 at 11:44

It isn’t meant to sound like the original, but “język slanianski” in Polish sounds… a bit ridiculous and to be honest wouldn’t work out., and “język lewiański” as well as “język lawicki” sound a bit like “język lewacki”, “lewacki” is a term that is used to offend stuff that is politically on the left. I think “język slewiański” is a good compromise between not sounding ridiculous and not having some other meaning.

Comment from Myrcia on 21 January 2017 at 13:25

I’m no expert so don’t weight my vote the same as anyone who actually knows these languages well but I think Slevic sounds best.

Comment from Nikolia on 21 January 2017 at 14:09

As a Serbian here, i think Slevian (Sr: слевенски/slevenski) sounds okay, so, i guess i vote for that one

Comment from tule00 on 24 January 2017 at 17:27

I’m also Serbian and something like Slevian/Sleve would be cool

Comment from stjur on 10 February 2017 at 14:08

All European alphabeths origin in the Greek one, also the proto-slavic one. Therefore, the usage of an y in the word Syrillangan is very accurate, as in Cyrillic, a word which is written in Russian Кирилик (without the original greek letter ѵ). In slavic languages, again, it is written with the y (Polish: Cyrylica, Czech: Cyrilice). Also, as I’ve written in the following wiki article that the name “Syrillangan” actually comes from the theologian Syrillus, who created the Syrillangan alphabet. If you don’t want to have the word Syrillangan to be written with an y, you can make in your language an i out of it.

In conclusion, it doesn’t really make sense to change the name of it, as it has been implemented into the wiki now. And the name Slevic sounds a little bit too much as Slavic to me.

Stjur

Comment from eklas on 10 February 2017 at 17:23

I was talking about the language and culture family, not the alphabet. Thanks for the feedback anyway!

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