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Old Church Slavonic [1] or Old Slavonic (/ s l ə ˈ v ɒ n ɪ k, s l æ ˈ v ɒ n-/ slə-VON-ik, slav-ON-) [a] is the first Slavic literary language and the oldest extant written Slavonic language attested in literary sources.
In western South Slavic dialects of Old Church Slavonic, this letter had a more closed pronunciation, perhaps [ɛ] or [e]. [3] This letter was written only after a consonant; in all other positions, ꙗ was used instead. [3] An exceptional document is Pages of Undolski, where ѣ is used instead of ꙗ. Ꙗ ꙗ ꙗ ja ja i͡a [jæː] І-А ligature
Church Slavonic represents a later stage of Old Church Slavonic, and is the continuation of the liturgical tradition introduced by two Thessalonian brothers, Saints Cyril and Methodius, in the late 9th century in Nitra, a principal town and religious and scholarly center of Great Moravia (located in present-day Slovakia).
The next characters in the Cyrillic block, range U+0460–U+0489, are historical letters, some of which are still used for Church Slavonic. The characters in the range U+048A–U+04FF and the complete Cyrillic Supplement block (U+0500–U+052F) are additional letters for various languages that are written with Cyrillic script .
4 Keyboard layout. 5 See also. 6 References. ... The Belarusian alphabet is based on the Cyrillic script and is derived from the alphabet of Old Church Slavonic. It ...
The Glagolitic script (/ ˌ ɡ l æ ɡ ə ˈ l ɪ t ɪ k / GLAG-ə-LIT-ik, [2] ⰳⰾⰰⰳⱁⰾⰻⱌⰰ, 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 Cyril, a monk from Thessalonica.
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