Slavonic language

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Slavonic language - a branch of the Indo-European family of languages

Balto-Slavic, Balto-Slavic language, Balto-Slavonic - a family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages

Church Slavic, Old Bulgarian, Old Church Slavic, Old Church Slavonic - the Slavic language into which the Bible was translated in the 9th century

Russian - the Slavic language that is the official language of Russia

Belarusian, Byelorussian, White Russian - the Slavic language spoken in Belarus

Ukrainian - the Slavic language spoken in the Ukraine

Polish - the Slavic language of Poland

Slovak - the Slavic language spoken in Slovakia

Czech - the Slavic language of Czechs

Slovene - the Slavic language of Slovenes

Serbo-Croat, Serbo-Croatian - the Slavic language of the Serbs and Croats; the Serbian dialect is usually written in the Cyrillic alphabet and the Croatian dialect is usually written in the Roman alphabet

Lusatian, Sorbian - a Slavonic language spoken in rural area of southeastern Germany

Macedonian - the Slavic language of modern Macedonia

Bulgarian - a Slavic language spoken in Bulgaria

References in periodicals archive ?

There they translated the Bible in the Old Church Slavonic language and created the Glagolitic alphabet, which later served as the basis of the Cyrillic alphabet developed by their disciples.

Bulgaria Celebrates Day of Education, Culture, Slavonic Alphabet

More specifically, it derives from the old Slavonic language and means valley, which is no coincidence given Debar's location.

Debar and its famed masons

There was a Gospel translation into the Old Slavonic language in the late 9th century by Saints Cyril and Methodius.

The Bible before Martin Luther

The missionaries to the Slavs devised an alphabet for the Slavonic language, (2) which is the common language from which the various modern Slavic languages evolved.

The bible in mission: women in mission

Typological issues posed by Yiddish morphosyntax are addressed from the perspective of the intermediate status of Yiddish between the Germanic and Slavonic language families.

Language

(5.) The Slavonic language family is genetically close and therefore provides an interesting area for the study of color category evolution.

Basic BLUE in East Slavonic(1)

Those interested were advised to learn the dead Church Slavonic language. One cannot but recall the current ban on translation of the church service into a language comprehensible to believers.

RUSSIAN ORTHODOXY OPEN TO DIALOGUE: A CONVERSATION WITH DR. ALEKSEI BODROV

Why two Byzantines speaking a Slavonic language embarked on a mission in Central Europe?

From great Moravia and Byzantium to Slovakia and Macedonia

They brought the Slavonic alphabet to us, taught literacy in the Slavonic language, and translated the gospel into Slavonic.

Response from Russia

Therefore, the holiday being celebrated the following day is called Bozik, which in the Old Slavonic language is a diminutive of Bog, meaning God.