A report on Glagolitic script, Cyrillic script and Church Slavonic
The Early Cyrillic alphabet was developed during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire during the reign of tsar Simeon I the Great, probably by disciples of Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius, the two brothers who created the earlier Glagolitic script.
- Cyrillic scriptBoth the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets were used until 13th-14th century in Bulgaria.
- Glagolitic scriptA major event was the development of the Cyrillic script in Bulgaria at the Preslav Literary School in the 9th century.
- Church SlavonicThe Glagolitic alphabet was preserved only by the clergy of Croatia and Dalmatia to write Church Slavonic until the early 19th century.
- Glagolitic scriptThese modified varieties or recensions (e.g. Serbian Church Slavonic, Russian Church Slavonic, Ukrainian Church Slavonic in Early Cyrillic script, Croatian Church Slavonic in Croatian angular Glagolitic and later in Latin script, Czech Church Slavonic, Slovak Church Slavonic in Latin script, Bulgarian Church Slavonic in Early Cyrillic and Bulgarian Glagolitic scripts, etc.) eventually stabilized and their regularized forms were used by the scribes to produce new translations of liturgical material from Koine Greek, or Latin in the case of Croatian Church Slavonic.
- Church SlavonicCyrillic and Glagolitic were used for the Church Slavonic language, especially the Old Church Slavonic variant.
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Old Church Slavonic
1 linksThe first Slavic literary language.
The first Slavic literary language.
Old Church Slavonic played an important role in the history of the Slavic languages and served as a basis and model for later Church Slavonic traditions, and some Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches use this later Church Slavonic as a liturgical language to this day.
Byzantine missionaries standardized the language for the expedition of the two apostles, Cyril and his brother Methodius, to Great Moravia (the territory of today's western Slovakia and the Czech Republic; see Glagolitic alphabet for details).
Both schools originally used the Glagolitic alphabet, though the Cyrillic script developed early on at the Preslav Literary School, where it superseded Glagolitic as official in Bulgaria in 893.
Cyril and Methodius
1 linksCyril (born Constantine, 826–869) and Methodius (815–885) were two brothers and Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries.
Cyril (born Constantine, 826–869) and Methodius (815–885) were two brothers and Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries.
They are credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavonic.
The language derived from Old Church Slavonic, known as Church Slavonic, is still used in liturgy by several Orthodox Churches and also in some Eastern Catholic churches.
There they and scholar Saint Clement of Ohrid devised the Cyrillic script on the basis of the Glagolitic.