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| | Simplified Spelling Society : Slavonic language spelling. |
 | | The Slavonic languages are a major branch (in the so-called 'satem' cluster) of the Indo-European family of languages: today their most important representative is Russian (technically known as 'Great Russian', 'velikorusskij jazyk', which belongs to the East Slavonic group, together with Ukrainian and Byelorussian. |
 | | Mention must, however, be made of Old Church Slavonic, the language into which Saints Cyril and Methodius, active in the territory of modern-day Bulgaria 1100 years ago, translated the Gospels and other Biblical and liturgical texts. |
 | | Old Church Slavonic was, effectively, created as a 'superstructure' on the South Slavonic speech used in that area at that time, but it has played a central role, cultural as well as religious, in Eastern and South-Eastem Europe since those days. |
| www.spellingsociety.org /journals/j8/slavonic.php (4630 words) |
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