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	Old Church Slavonic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Old Church Slavonic (also called Old Church Slavic, Old Bulgarian, Old Macedonian, and inaccurately Old Slavic) is the first literary Slavic language, developed from the Slavic dialect of Solun (Thessaloniki) by 9th century Byzantine missionaries, Saints Cyril and Methodius.
		Old Church Slavonic is evidenced by a relatively small body of manuscripts, written for the most part, in the late 10th and the early 11th century.
		Old Church Slavonic's first writings, translations of Christian liturgical and Biblical texts, were produced by Byzantine missionaries Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius, mostly during their mission to Great Moravia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic (1660 words)

	Old Church Slavonic -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Much later, local redactions of Old Church Slavonic were created for ecclesiastical and administrative use, and are collectively known as (additional info and facts about Church Slavonic) Church Slavonic ((A native or inhabitant of Russia) Russian: церковнославя́нский язы́к, tserkovnoslavyánskiy yazík), but these terms are often confused.
		Initially Old Church Slavonic was written with the (additional info and facts about Glagolitic alphabet) Glagolitic alphabet, but later it was replaced by the (An alphabet drived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages) Cyrillic alphabet.
		Old Church Slavonic's first writings, translations of Christian liturgical and Biblical texts, were produced by Byzantine missionaries (additional info and facts about Saint Cyril) Saint Cyril and (additional info and facts about Saint Methodius) Saint Methodius, mostly during their mission to (additional info and facts about Great Moravia) Great Moravia.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/ol/old_church_slavonic.htm (1641 words)

	Old Church Slavonic
		The standard variety that developed in Russia, referred merely as Church Slavonic language, is still used today as the language of the Orthodox churches in Russia, Bulgaria and Serbia and sometimes in Bohemia.
		Old Church Slavonic was written in two alphabets known as Glagolitic and Cyrillic (the invention of Glagolitic has been traditionally ascribed to St. Cyril).
		Old Church Slavonic was preserved as a liturgical language into modern times.
	www.orbilat.com /Encyclopaedia/O/Old_Church_Slavonic.html (841 words)

	OLD SLAVONIC - LoveToKnow Article on OLD SLAVONIC
		the article SLAyS (under Languages) will be found a fairly complete account of Old Slavonic in its first form, as it is taken as representing, save for a few peculiarities noticed in their place, the Proto-Slavonic.
		The reasons are there given for believing it to be the dialect of Slays settled somewhere between Thessalonica and Constantinople and represented now by the Bulgarians and Macedonians.
		The Slavonic text of the Bible is not of importance for textual criticism, as the translation was made late, and even so has never been studied from that point of view.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SL/SLAVONIC_OLD.htm (404 words)

	Slavonic languages
		Several features are common to the Moravian and Bohemian varieties of the Old Church Slavonic language, to the Slovene (Pannonian) variant reflected in the Freising fragments (late 10th century), and to the Croatian Old Church Slavonic tradition that is attested from the 12th century, as well as to the Serbian tradition.
		From the linguistic point of view, these later Church Slavonic literary languages differ from the earlier varieties chiefly in their systems of vowels; the early nasalized vowels were replaced by different later reflexes, and the reduced vowels (yers), with the exception of those followed by a syllable containing another yer, were generally lost.
		In the middle of the 17th century, the old Great Russian variant of the Church Slavonic language in the official Orthodox Church was replaced by a new variant taken from the southwestern East Slavic tradition, a form that incorporated some Ukrainian and Belarusian elements.
	www.rkp-montreal.org /en/05slavoniclanguages.html (5789 words)

	Church Slavonic. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		A.D., this language is variously termed Old Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavic, or Old Bulgarian.
		The year 1100 is the conventional dividing line between the ancestor, Old Church Slavonic, and its descendant, the later Church Slavonic, which flourished as the literary language of a number of Slavic peoples before the 18th cent.
		Old Church Slavonic is the first Slavic language known to have been recorded in writing.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ch/ChurchSl.html (427 words)

	Old Church Slavonic Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The foundation of the Old Church Slavonic Institute was laid in Krk in 1902 when the Old Slavonic academy was established.
		The Academy was reestablished on September 15, 1948 at the conference of the Society of Clergy of Croatia, held in Rijeka.
		In 1977, a law was passed integrating the Old Church Slavonic Institute, along with the until then autonomous Institute of Language Studies and Institute of Folklore Studies, into the Institute of Philology and Folklore Studies.
	jagor.srce.hr /staroslavenski-institut/en/pov.html (551 words)

	Old Church Slavonic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Old Church Slavonic (or Old Slavonic, or Old Slavic, Russian старославя́нский язы́к, Slovene starocerkvenoslovančina) is the first literary and liturgical Slavic language taken over (or developed, depending on the point of view) by the 9th century missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius.
		Cyril and Methodius hailed from Solun (modern Thessaloniki) and based the Old Church Slavonic on the Slavic dialect used by intellectuals of the Solun (Thessaloniki) region of the Byzantine Empire.
		Initially Old Church Slavonic language was written with the Glagolitic alphabet, but later it was superseded by the Cyrillic alphabet.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/old_church_slavonic (334 words)

	OLD SLAVONIC
		Old Church Slavonic (or Old Slavonic, or Old Slavic) is the first literary and liturgical Slavic language taken over (or developed, depending on the point of view) by the 9th century missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius.
		Cyril and Methodius hailed from Thessaloniki and based the Old Church Slavonic on the Slavic (Macedonian) dialect used by intellectuals of the Thessaloniki region of the Byzantine Empire.
		Church Slavonic maintained a prestige status, particularly in Russia, for many centuries -- among Slavs in the East it had a status analogous to that of the Latin language in western Europe, but had the advantage of being less divergent from the vernacular tongues of average parishioners.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/OLD+SLAVONIC (210 words)

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		Church Slavonic maintained a prestige status, particularly in Russia, for many centuries — among Slavs in the East it had a status analogous to that of the Latin language in western
		The designation Old Bulgarian was generally used in 19th and early 20th-century linguistics to refer to Old Church Slavonic but is now considered outdated.
		The original name of the language in the Old Church Slavonic texts was simply "the Slavic language", therefore the present-day Slavic names of the language are derived from the old or new word for Slavs.
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic (510 words)

	Old Church Slavonic - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Old Church Slavonic (also Old Church Slavic, formerly inaccurately called Old Slavic or Old Bulgarian) is the first literary and liturgical Slavic language developed from the native language of the 9th century missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius.
		For that purpose, Cyril and Methodius first codified Old Church Slavonic from the Slavonic dialect spoken in the Solun (Thessaloniki) region of the Byzantine Empire.
		Bulgarian linguists call the language Old Bulgarian as they regard it as based on a 9th century Bulgarian dialect, and the designation Old Bulgarian was generally used in 19th and early 20th-century linguistics to refer to Old Church Slavonic.
	education.music.us /O/Old-Church-Slavonic.htm (892 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Slavs
		With more reason can the old story that the Greeks obtained amber from the River Eridanos in the country of the Enetoi be applied to the Wends or Slavs; from which it may be concluded that the Slavs were already living on the shores of the Baltic in the fourth century before Christ.
		At the beginning of the Old Slavonic literature in the ancient Kingdom of the Bulgars the Byzantine chronicles of Hamartolos and Malala, which were besides of very little value, were translated into Slavonic.
		The remains of the languages of the former Slavonic inhabitants of Pomerania, the Sloventzi, or Kasube are generally regarded at present as dialects of Polish, though some distinguished Polish scholars maintain the independence of the Kasube language.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14042a.htm (7677 words)

	Encyclopedia: Old Church Slavonic
		The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages), a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.
		Great Moravia (Old Church Slavonic approximately Ð’ÐµÐ»ÑŒÑ ÐœÐ¾Ñ€Ð°Ð²Ð°, Czech VelkÃ¡ Morava, Slovak VeÄ¾kÃ¡ Morava, Latin Magna Moravia) was a Slav state existing on the territory of present-day Moravia and Slovakia between 833 and the early 10th century.
		Old Church Slavonic (also called Old Church Slavic or Old Bulgarian, incorrectly Old Slavic) is the first literary Slavic language, developed from the Slavic dialect of Solun (Thessaloniki) by 9th century Byzantine missionaries, Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Old-Church-Slavonic (4081 words)

	The Church Slavonic E-Tutor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although Slavonic is far from extinct in its usage, there is a natural pressure in America to use English in the Divine Services.
		Having spent my youth hearing Slavonic every Sunday, it is only now in adulthood, and some twenty years away from the Church, that I finally have come to understand the Divine Services after participating in services in English.
		Since Slavonic materials for English speakers seems to be quite scarce, the author would appreciate submission of materials that might improve or enhance this program.
	www.orthodoxepubsoc.org /etutorindex.htm (616 words)

	Our Slavic Language
		The Slavonic language was introduced into the Byzantine liturgy by the Apostles of the Slavs, SS.
		The invention of the Slavic letters and introduction of the Slavonic language into worship could be considered a genial work, a real miracle, since it surpassed all the literary attempts made in the Middle Ages.
		Until the tenth century the dialectical differences of Slavonic languages were negligible and the Old-Slavonic language was used as a literary language by all the Slavs.
	www.carpatho-rusyn.org /spirit/chap4.htm (1335 words)

	Welkya - The Creation of the Slav Script - Part2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Since the Old Bulgarian writings were written in two alphabets – the Cyrillic and the Glagolitic – there has been a long dispute over the question: which of the two Old Bulgarian alphabets was the one created by Cyril.
		The name of Old Slavonic is not suitable, because it is indefinite, this language is not Old Slavonic in general, and it is highly differentiated as an individual Slav language.
		About the language of the Old Russian literature, the well known Russian scholar Shakhmatov wrote: "The origin of the literary Russian language is the Church Slavonic language (Old Bulgarian in origin) transferred to Russian soil, which in the course of ages came closer to the living people’s language and gradually lost its alien aspect".
	www.bulgaria.com /welkya/kritika/slave2.html (2448 words)

	The Old Slavonic version of Josephus "Jewish War"
		There is a text in Old Slavonic, preserved in a number of manuscripts, which is strongly related to the Greek text of Josephus, "The Jewish War", and the manuscripts give the author's name as Josephus.
		The text is commonly known as the Old Slavonic Josephus, or the Old Russian Josephus.
		Some of the contents of the Slavonic manuscripts of Josephus' Jewish War is sufficiently controversial that, in my view, anyone seriously interested in the subject may well want to know about Hansack's findings and the present state of the Slavonic Josephus manuscript research.
	www.tertullian.org /rpearse/josephus/slavonic.htm (4264 words)

	ipedia.com: Old Church Slavonic Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Old Church Slavonic is the first literary and liturgical Slavic language taken over by the 9th century missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius.
		Old Church Slavonic (or Old Slavonic, or Old Slavic, sometimes called Old Bulgarian) is the first literary and liturgical Slavic language taken over (or developed, depending on the point of view) by the 9th century missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius.
		Cyril and Methodius hailed from Solun (modern Thessaloniki) and based the Old Church Slavonic on the Slavic (Macedonian) dialect used in the Solun (Thessaloniki) region of the Byzantine Empire.
	www.ipedia.com /old_church_slavonic.html (500 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But a man in the street should think otherwise: Church Slavonic, "cerkovno-slavjanskij" is a contemporary (after 18 century) publication of Russian Orthdox Church, to be distinguished from Old Slavonic, "drevne-slavjanskij" with which religious books used to be written and printed in Middle Ages.
		The so called Liturgical (Chruch) Slavonic as is used in the Orthodox Church is in fact an artificial language based to a large extent on Old Bulgarian but with a simplified grammar.
		The real Old Slavonic language existed before printing technology became known to Slavs, and more over it is not regarded as part of the Russian language.
	www.caida.org /broido/rustex/970417.html (1636 words)

	Old Church Slavonic
		Old Church Slavonic or Church Slavonic is a literary language which developed from the language used by St Cyril and St Methodius, 9th century missionaries from Byzantium, to translate the bible and other religious works.
		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.
		Old Church Slavonic was used as the liturgical language of the Russian Orthodox church between the 9th and 12th centuries.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/ocslavonic.htm (368 words)

	Church Slavonic : Old Church Slavonic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic or Old Slavic is a literary and liturgical Slavic language developed by 8th century missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius, most important in eastern Orthodoxy and its spread into the countries of the Slavic peoples.
		Church Slavonic maintained a prestige status, particularly in Russia, for many centuries -- it had in the East a status analogous to that of the Latin language in western Europe, but had the advantage of being less divergent from the vernacular tongues of average parishioners.
		Day by day do the best of the hogs." So he spake, and Ulysses ate flesh and drank wine the while; but But at the last he spake: "My friend, who was this, thy lord, of vengeance for King Menelaus.
	www.explainthis.info /ol/old-church-slavonic.html (329 words)

	HP d.d.- Stamps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Old Slavonic Academy in Krk was founded one hundred years ago, with the aim of researching and looking after the heritage of the saintly brothers, Apostles of the Slavs, Constantine Cyril and Methodius, as well as studying the Slavonic liturgy and Slavonic script, the Glagolitic alphabet.
		The attempt to revive the Old Slavonic Academy by shifting its activity to the Theological Seminary in Zagreb failed.
		On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Old Slavonic Academy in Krk, in October of this year an international conference will be held in Zagreb and Krk, named Glagoljica i hrvatski glagolizam (Glagolitic script and the Croatian Glagolitic).
	www.posta.hr /markeasp/index_e.asp?brmarke=446 (819 words)

	Help Me Learn Church Slavonic
		My goals in learning Church Slavonic are to be able to read and pray with understanding texts written in Church Slavonic, to be able to serve and sing competently on the kliros, and to be able to translate Church Slavonic texts into English.
		Although Church Slavonic is sometimes called "Old Church Slavonic," "Old Slavonic," or "Old Church Slavic," it has been revised several times throughout its history, most recently in the 18th century under the Empress Elizabeth.
		The term "Old Church Slavonic" properly belongs to the form of the language that was used in the 9th-12th centuries and not to the modern form of Church Slavonic that is currently used in the Russian Orthodox Church.
	justin.zamora.com /slavonic (340 words)

	Old Church Slavonic language -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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		Old Church Slavonic was the first Slavic literary language and was...
		The Slavic languages are most closely related to the languages of the Baltic group (Lithuanian, Latvian, and the now-extinct Old Prussian), but they share certain linguistic innovations with the other eastern Indo-European...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9056967?tocId=9056967 (809 words)

	Versions of the New Testament
		The Old Church Slavonic was translated primarily for liturgical use, so it should not be surprising that lectionary manuscripts are common, and that manuscripts of the Apocalypse (which is not used in the lectionary) are rare.
		Research on the Slavonic text has been limited, both because of the difficulty of the language (Old Church Slavonic is, of course, Indo-European, but of the Slavic branch of the family, which is not well known to Western scholars) and because of the lateness of the translation.
		Slavonic generally renders Greek well (except in matters of verb tense and specific vocabulary), but the text seems to be late.
	www.skypoint.com /~waltzmn/Versions.html (14315 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Slavonic Language and Liturgy
		Although the Latin holds the chief place among the liturgical languages in which the Mass is celebrated and the praise of God recited in the Divine Offices, yet the Slavonic language comes next to it among the languages widely used throughout the world in the liturgy of the Church.
		We rightly praise the Slavonic letters invented by Cyril in which praises to God are set forth, and we order that the glories and deeds of Christ our Lord be told in that same language.
		From that time onward the Slavonic tongue was firmly fixed as a liturgical language of the Church, and was used wherever the Slavic tribes were converted to Christianity under the influence of monks and missionaries of the Greek Rite.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14041b.htm (1083 words)

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