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Glagolitic writing system, the oldest known Slavonic alphabet.
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Glagolitic alphabet — Infobox Writing system type=Alphabet name=Glagolitic time=862/863 to the Middle Ages languages=Old Church Slavic creator=Saints Cyril and Methodius sample=Kodex.Zograf.jpg caption=A page from the Zograf Kodex with text of the Gospel of Luke… … Wikipedia
Glagolitic alphabet — script introduced into the Slavic speaking Balkan communities in the late 9th century AD, together with the Slavonic liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church. Glagolitic script was used by Roman Catholic Slavs, while the Cyrillic alphabet was… … Universalium
glagolitic alphabet — early Slavonic alphabet that was produced by Saint Cyril around 862 863 as to translate the Bible and other texts into the Slavonic language … English contemporary dictionary
Glagolitic — • An ancient alphabet of the Slavic languages, also called in Russian bukvitsa Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Glagolitic Glagolitic … Catholic encyclopedia
Glagolitic — 1861, from Serbo Cr. glagolica Glagolitic alphabet, from O.C.S. glagolu word (see CALL (Cf. call)) + Greek suffix itic. The older of the two Slavic writing systems (CYRILLIC (Cf. Cyrillic) is the other), it was designed by Cyrillus c.863 C.E … Etymology dictionary
alphabet — /al feuh bet , bit/, n. 1. the letters of a language in their customary order. 2. any system of characters or signs with which a language is written: the Greek alphabet. 3. any such system for representing the sounds of a language: the phonetic… … Universalium
Glagolitic — 1. adjective a) Of or written with the Glagolitic alphabet. In the case of mixed marriages between a Glagolitic and Latin Catholic, the children follow the rite of the father; but there is an exception in favour of the eldest daughter of a… … Wiktionary
Alphabet — [ William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia .] An alphabet is a standardized set of letters mdash basic written symbolsmdash each of which roughly represents a phoneme, a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in… … Wikipedia
glagolitic — adj. pertaining to or written in an uncial cursive alphabet belonging to Saint Cyril; of or in Slavonic alphabet; of or relating to a Roman Catholic community of southwestern Croatia (whose liturgical books continue to be written in the… … English contemporary dictionary
Glagolitic — /glag euh lit ik/, adj. 1. noting or written in an alphabet, probably invented by St. Cyril in about A.D. 865, formerly used in writing Old Church Slavonic and other Slavic languages: almost completely replaced by Cyrillic starting about the 10th … Universalium
