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Oldest known Slavic alphabet
- The Glagolitic script (/ ˌɡlæɡəˈlɪtɪk / 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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The Glagolitic script (/ ˌɡlæɡəˈlɪtɪk / 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.
Glagolitic alphabet, script invented for the Slavic languages about 860 ce by the Eastern Orthodox Christian missionaries Constantine (later known as St. Cyril) and his brother Methodius (later St. Methodius).
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This chart shows the Glagolitic alphabet with the names of the letters in Old Church Slavonic, the Cyrillic and Latin equivalents of the letters, and IPA transcription. Glagolitic alphabet improved by Michael Peter Füstumum Download a Glagolitic alphabet chart(Excel)
Transliteration
Vĭsi bo ljudije rodętŭ sę svobodĭni i ravĭni vŭ dostoinĭstvě i zakoně. Oni sǫtŭ odarjeni razumomĭ i sŭvědijǫ i dŭlžĭni sǫtŭ dějati vŭ dusě bratĭstva. Translation by Siemoród Wędzki. Provided by Corey Murray
Translation
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. (Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
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Both scripts were based on the Greek alphabet and share commonalities, but the exact nature of relationship between the Glagolitic alphabet and the Early Cyrillic alphabet, their order of development, and influence on each other has been a matter of great study, controversy, and dispute in Slavic studies.
6 days ago · Glagolitic writing consisted of 40 letters, externally very unlike either the Greek or Cyrillic scripts. Cyrillic became, with slight modification in each case, the national script of the Bulgarians, Serbs, Montenegrins, Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians.
Cyril and Methodius based their translations on a Slavonic dialect of the Thessalonika area and invented a new alphabet, Glagolitic, in order to write them.
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 this language.
