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Definition of old church slavonic language in English English dictionary: or Old Church Slavic language Oldest attested Slavic language, known from a small corpus of 10th-or 11th-century manuscripts, most written in the Glagolitic alphabet (see Cyrillic alphabet). The Old Church Slavonic documents, all translations from Christian ecclesiastical texts, resulted from the mission to the Moravian Slavs of Saints Cyril and Methodius, though all but one of the surviving manuscripts were actually copied in South Slavic-speaking areas. Beginning in the 11th century, the influence of the vernacular languages in cultural focal areas (Serbia, Bulgaria-Macedonia, Ukraine, and Russia) led to regional variations in Church Slavonic. It remained the literary language of Eastern Orthodoxy in South Slavic and East Slavic lands into modern times and is still the liturgical language of Slavic Orthodoxy and the Slavic Eastern rite church
Old Church Slavonic: The first literary and liturgical Slavic language
Old Church Slavonic language.: Old Slavonic
Old Church Slavonic: The medieval Slavic language used in the translation of the Bible by Cyril and Methodius and in early literary manuscripts and still used as a liturgical language by several churches of Eastern Orthodoxy. Also called Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
old church slavonic: the Slavic language into which the Bible was translated in the 9th Century

old church slavonic language

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old church Sla·vo·nic lan·guage

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