Post by ivo on Sept 12, 2011 6:04:28 GMT -5
Glagolitic was formed by the adaptation of cursive Greek by some Slavs during the couple of centuries preceding the Moravian mission; it was formalised by Constantine, who also added letters for the non-Greek sounds; Constantine's disciples in Bulgaria and Macedonia (in the 890s), especially the Macedonian Ohrid group, headed by (St) Clement perceived Glagolitic as unsuitable for Church books and made up a new Slavonic alphabet based on the 'more dignified' uncial Greek. This is the alphabet we now know as Cyrillic, formally named (much later) after St Cyril, even though it is likely that the alphabet he created was in fact Glagolitic.
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Russian: a linguistic introduction
By Paul V. Cubberley
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Russian: a linguistic introduction
By Paul V. Cubberley
Cyrillic alphabet - generally considered the second oldest Slavic alphabet. Its creator is unknown, but may have been Clement of Ohrid. The name Cyrillic was given as an attribute of respect in recognition of *Constantine the Philosopher/St. Cyril, who had earlier created the first Slavic (*Glagolitic) alphabet. The Cyrillic alphabet was in the main based on the Greek alphabet and its first attested in the late ninth century in the *Bulgarian Khanate. Because some Slavs in the Balkans were already familiar with the Greek alphabet, Cyrillic proved to be more accessible and quickly replaced Glagolitic; between the tenth and twelfth centuries Cyrillic became the dominant script in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, and Kievan Rus'. Some authors have argued that Cyrillic was the first Slavic alphabet created by Sts. Constantine/Cyril and Methodius during their mission to the Slavs of central Europe, and that Glagolitic came into being only later among the Slavs of Dalmania. The Cyrillic alphabet is used by those peoples who have maintained a Byzantine-rite Christian tradition: Russians, Belarusans, Ukrainians, Serbs, Bulgarians, and Romanians (until the mid-nineteenth century).
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Encyclopedia of Rusyn history and culture
By Paul R. Magocsi, Ivan Ivanovich Pop
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Encyclopedia of Rusyn history and culture
By Paul R. Magocsi, Ivan Ivanovich Pop
However, Cyrillic, being closer to the Greek alphabet, was more appropriate than Glagolitic to render Byzantine Christian literature, and by the 11th c. was extensively used. It drives from Bulgaria, where it was devised to represent the phonemes of the Macedonian Slavonic of Thessalonica (Slavonic Solun')
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Encyclopedia of the languages of Europe
By Glanville Price
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Encyclopedia of the languages of Europe
By Glanville Price
An alphabet originally developed in the ninth century that has survived with important modifications to serve as the present alphabet of most Eastern and South Slavic peoples. Legend has it that two Greek missionaries from Constantinople, St. Cyril (after whom it is named) and St. Methodius, "Apostles to the Slavs," invented the alphabet to assist their efforts to Christianize the Moravians. Recent scholarship suggests that St. Cyril may have devised the older Glagolitic alphabet, but that the Cyrilic alphabet was perhaps devised by one of his followers.
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Russia: a reference guide from the Renaissance to the present
By Mauricio Borrero
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Russia: a reference guide from the Renaissance to the present
By Mauricio Borrero
named after Byzantine missionary St. Cyril and developed from Greek between the 8th and 10th centuries, possibly by St. Kliment of Ohrid for the Old Church Slavonic language.
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The Fundamentals of Typography
By Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris
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The Fundamentals of Typography
By Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris