Old Church Slavonic
Old Church Slavonic is the language of some Eastern Orthodox churches. It was the first Slavic language for writing literature. It was made by the brothers Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century.
| Old Church Slavonic | ||||
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| Old Church Slavic ⰔⰎⰑⰂⰡⰐⰠⰔⰍⰟ ⰧⰈⰟⰊⰍⰟ словѣ́ньскъ ѩꙁꙑ́къ slověnĭskŭ językŭ | ||||
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| Native to | formerly in Slavic areas, under the influence of Byzantium (both Catholic and Orthodox) | |||
| Region | ||||
| Era | 9th–11th centuries; then evolved into several variants of Church Slavonic | |||
| Language family | ||||
| Writing system | Glagolitic, Cyrillic | |||
| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-1 | cu | |||
| ISO 639-2 | chu | |||
| ISO 639-3 | chu
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| Linguasphere | 53-AAA-a | |||
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Old Church Slavonic Media
Example of the Cyrillic alphabet: excerpt from the manuscript "Bdinski Zbornik" written in Old Slavonic, 1360
- Triod'cvetnaja
A page from the Gospel of Miroslav, Serbian medieval manuscript, a 12th-century Byzantine-Slavonic book, National Library of Serbia.
The Introduction of the Slavonic Liturgy in Great Moravia (1912), by Alphonse Mucha, The Slav Epic
"Simeon I of Bulgaria, the Morning Star of Slavonic Literature". (1923), by Alphonse Mucha, The Slav Epic
About two-thirds of the Old Church Slavonic canon is written in the Glagolitic alphabet
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References
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This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Old Church Slavonic edition. |
