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Glagolitic

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1. Glagolitic - Noun

2. Glagolitic - Adjective

Meaning

Of or written with the Glagolitic alphabet.

Denoting Slavic Roman Catholic rites in Dalmatia.

Glagolitic (uncountable)

(linguistics) The oldest known Slavonic alphabet, designed around 862–863 by Saint Cyril in order to translate the Bible and other texts into Old Church Slavonic. Mostly replaced by Cyrillic alphabet in Orthodox Christian Slavic countries, but still in use in the Croatian Church along the Dalmatian coast, in Czech and Croatian recensions of Church Slavic.

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Correspondence between Glagolitic izhe (Ⰹ, Ⰺ) and i (Ⰻ) with Cyrillic И and І is unknown. Source: Internet

Cyrillic and Glagolitic were used for the Church Slavonic language, especially the Old Church Slavonic variant. Source: Internet

Glagolitic script in the Zagreb Cathedral A page from the 10th–11th century Codex Zographensis found in the Zograf Monastery in 1843. Source: Internet

Constantine devised a new alphabet, later called Glagolitic, to render the sounds of the new language and to adapt it to the new conditions iii Moravia. Source: Internet

Encyclopædia Britannica, Major alphabets of the world, Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets, 2008, O.Ed. "The two early Slavic alphabets, the Cyrillic and the Glagolitic, were invented by St. Cyril, or Constantine (c. 827–869), and St. Methodii (c. 825–884). Source: Internet

For seven years (886-893) Clement taught some 3,500 students in the Slavonic language and the Glagolitic alphabet. Source: Internet

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