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.
Sometime during the 10th century AD a new alphabet appeared which was known as Cyrillic and named after St Cyril, though it was possibly invented by St Clement of Ohrid (Свети Климент Охридски) and Saint Naum (Свети Наум), who were disciples of St Cyril. The Cyrillic alphabet was used to write the Old Church Slavonic language, and was later adapted to write many other languages.
Old Church Slavonic was used as the liturgical language of the Russian Orthodox church between the 9th and 12th centuries. A more modern form of the language, known as Church Slavonic, appeared during the 14th century and is still used in the Russian Orthodox church.
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
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)
Source: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/eieol/ocsol-7-X.html
Details and improvements supplied by Michael Peter Füstumum
Source: https://sprak.gu.se/english/research/Research_subjects/old-church-slavonic
Information about Old Church Slavonic | Numbers | Tower of Babel | Learning materials
Information about Old Church Slavonic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic
Online Church Slavonic lessons
http://www.orthodoxepubsoc.org/
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/ocsol-1-X.html
Old Church Slavonic fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_CyrOCS.html
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/ocslavonic.html
http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/fonts/wincyrillic.html
http://www.davidzbiral.webzdarma.cz/cyrillicof.htm
Online Church Slavonic keyboard
http://www.churchslavonic.org
Online Church Slavonic Institute
http://public.srce.hr/staroslavenski-institut/en/home.html
Corpus Cyrillo-Methodianum Helsingiense (An Electronic Corpus of Old Church Slavonic Texts): http://www.slav.helsinki.fi/ccmh/
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