Codex Zographensis in the Glagolitic alphabet from Medieval Bulgaria

The Glagolitic alphabet was the initial script of the liturgical language Old Church Slavonic and became, together with the Greek uncial script, the basis of the Cyrillic script.

In 886 AD, the Bulgarian Empire introduced the Glagolitic alphabet which was devised by the Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 850s.

The Glagolitic alphabet was gradually superseded in later centuries by the Cyrillic script, developed around the Preslav Literary School, Bulgaria in the beginning of the 10th century.

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The Glagolitic alphabet (), also known as Glagolitsa, ( OCS:, ) is the oldest known Slavic alphabet.

The number of letters in the original Glagolitic alphabet is not known, but may have been close to its presumed Greek model.

Twenty-four of the 41 original Glagolitic letters ( see table below ) probably derive from graphemes of the medieval cursive Greek small alphabet, but have been given an ornamental design.

In missals, the Glagolitic script was eventually replaced with the Latin alphabet, but the use of the Slavic language in the Mass continued, until replaced by the modern vernacular languages.

But, in 1992, the discovery of Glagolitic inscriptions in churches along the Orljava river in Slavonia, totally changed the picture ( churches in Brodski Drenovac, Lovčić and some others ), showing that use of Glagolitic alphabet was spread from Slavonia also.

The Cyrillic alphabet is derived from the Greek alphabet, with ( at least 10 ) letters peculiar to Slavic languages being derived from the Glagolitic.

In the western part the Glagolitic alphabet remained dominant at first.

Nevertheless, particular passages or words written with the Glagolitic alphabet appeared in Bulgarian Cyrillic manuscripts till the end of the 14 century.

Only in Croatia the Glagolitic alphabet was used until 19th century.

A less common belief, contradicting allochtonic Slovene origin, was that the Glagolitic was created or used in the 4th century by St. Jerome, hence the alphabet is sometimes named Hieronymian.

* 1248: Pope Innocent IV gave the unique privilege of using the Glagolitic alphabet in the liturgy.

Saints Cyril and Methodius, Byzantine Greeks born in Thessaloniki, were the creators of the first Slavic Glagolitic alphabet and Old Church Slavonic language.

They are credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavonic.

For the purpose of this mission, they devised the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet to be used for Slavonic manuscripts.

The name Glagolitic in Belarusian is глаголіца ( hłaholica ), Bulgarian, Macedonian and Russian глаголица ( glagolica ), Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian glagoljica / глагољица, Czech hlaholice, Polish głagolica, Slovene, Slovak hlaholika, and Ukrainian глаголиця ( hlaholyća ).

The Hrvoje's Missal () from 1404 was written in Split, and it is considered one of the most beautiful Croatian Glagolitic books.

Nowadays, Glagolitic is used only for Church Slavic ( Croatian and Czech recensions ).

In conjunction with another disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Saint Naum, he created a flourishing Bulgarian cultural center around Ohrid, where over 3, 000 pupils were taught in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic script in what is now called Ohrid Literary School.

This view is confirmed by the " Prague Fragments " and by certain Old Glagolitic liturgical fragments brought from Jerusalem to Kiev and there discovered by Saresnewsky — probably the oldest document for the Slavonic tongue ; these adhere closely to the Latin type, as is shown by the words " Mass ," " Preface ," and the name of one Felicitas.

The Baška tablet is an early example of the Glagolitic from Croatia.

* The Glagolitic alphabet, devised by Cyril and Methodius, missionaries from Constantinople, is adopted in the Bulgarian Empire.

* December 5-Leoš Janáček's Glagolitic Mass is premiered in Brno.

In linguistics, scientific transliteration is used for both Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets.

Along the road from Roč to Hum is Glagolitic avenue, a memorial avenue of ten monuments from the history of the Glagolitic alphabet.

In some South Slavic languages especially in Serbian, the word krajina refers primarily to border or borderland of a country, with established military defense, and secondarily to a region, area, or landscape ; but in medieval Croatian of Glagolitic texts the last is its primary earlier meaning and military role appeared since Turks.

The Serbian term is equal to German Mark and French marche, but the old-Croatian Glagolitic is subequal to the Romance Terrafirma as opposed to coast or islands.

The alphabet that was originally developed by Cyril and Methodius is known as the Glagolitic alphabet.

Armenian, Georgian, and Glagolitic may fit in this category, though their origin is not known.

There is no numerical value for this letter nor it was in the Glagolitic alphabet.

Tse is thought to have come from the Hebrew letter Tsadi ⟨ צ ⟩, via the Glagolitic letter Tsi ⟨ Ⱌ ⟩.

Sha ( Ш ш ; italics: < span style =" font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif ; font-size: larger "> Ш ш </ span >) is a letter of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic script.

* Saint Cyril the Philosopher, believed to have co-invented the Glagolitic alphabet, the first Slavic alphabet, and translated the Bible into Old Church Slavonic

The 41 letters we know today include letters for non-Greek sounds which may have been added by Saint Cyril, as well as ligatures added in the 12th century under the influence of Cyrillic, as Glagolitic lost its dominance.

This extinct form of Cyrillic is peripheral to Croatian paleography which focuses on Glagolitic and Latin script corpora while Bosniaks, although acknowledging Bosnian Cyrillic heritage, have been focusing efforts on investigating Bosnian vernacular literature in a modified Arabic script.

The Glagolitic and early Cyrillic alphabets, although not consisting of ideograms, also have letters named acrophonically.

* Many Christian texts written in Glagolitic / Slavonic instead of the traditional Latin style have been found and are preserved here and in the Vatican.

The oldest Slavic script, Glagolitic, seems to have been developed in from cursive Greek in Macedonia by the early South Slavs.