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v. t. e. A page from the Zograf Codex with text of the Gospel of Luke. The Glagolitic script ( / ˌɡlæɡəˈlɪtɪk /, [2] ⰃⰎⰀⰃⰑⰎⰉⰜⰀ, glagolitsa) is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed that it was created in the 9th century for the purpose of translating liturgical texts into Old Church Slavonic by Saint ...
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Glagolitic precedence. The theory that Glagolitic script was created before Cyrillic was first put forth by G. Dobner in 1785, and since Pavel Jozef Šafárik's 1857 study of Glagolitic monuments, Über den Ursprung und die Heimat des Glagolitismus, there has been a virtual consensus in the academic circles that St. Cyril developed the Glagolitic alphabet, rather than the Cyrillic.
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The Glagolitic alphabet was invented during the 9th century by the missionaries St Cyril (827-869 AD) and St Methodius (826-885 AD) in order to translate the Bible and other religious works into the language of the Great Moravia region. They probably modelled Glagolitic on a cursive form of the Greek alphabet, and based their translations on a ...
The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the 9th century AD and replaced the earlier Glagolitic script developed by the theologians Cyril and Methodius. It is the basis of alphabets used in various languages, past and present, Slavic origin, and non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian. As of 2011, around 252 million people in Eurasia use ...
The Cyrillic alphabet was based on the Greek uncial writing of the 9th century It originally had a total of 43 letters; the two Hebrew letters tzade and shin were transformed into the Cyrillic letters for the sounds ch, sh, and shch. The modern forms of this alphabet have fewer letters. Glagolitic writing consisted of 40 letters, externally ...
The Glagolitic alphabet is the oldest known Slavic script, with 41 characters. It was introduced in mid-9th century and was used in Croatia – and only in Croatia – up until the 19th century, which means that it was the official script in Croatia for 1000 years! The first mention of 'Croatia' was in Glagolitic script and dates back to around ...
Głagolicy (Ⰳⱉⰰⰳⱁⰾⰹⱌⱏ) Głagolicy is a way to write Polish with the Glagolitic alphabet - one of the oldest known scripts created to write Slavic languages. It was devised by Allison Powell, who believes that the Latin alphabet is poorly adapted for writing Polish as it lacks many of the Slavic phonemes naturally occurring in ...
