Old Church Slavonic

Old Church Slavonic

n.

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.

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Old Church Slavonic, Slavic

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(Linguistics / Languages) the oldest recorded Slavonic language: the form of Old Slavonic into which the Bible was translated in the ninth century, preserved as a liturgical language of various Orthodox Churches: belonging to the South Slavonic subbranch of languages

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Old Church Slavonic - the Slavic language into which the Bible was translated in the 9th century Church Slavic, Old Bulgarian, Old Church Slavic Slavic, Slavic language, Slavonic, Slavonic language - a branch of the Indo-European family of languages