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Old Church Slavic pronunciation in English

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Old Church Slavic

see synonyms of old church slavic

Noun

1. church slavic, old bulgarian, old church slavic, old church slavonic

the Slavic language into which the Bible was translated in the 9th century

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Old Church Slavic

see synonyms of old church slavic
noun
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 Slavic

see synonyms of old church slavic
the South Slavic language used in the 9th-cent. Bible translation by Saint Cyril and his brother, Saint Methodius, and still used as a liturgical language (now called Church Slavonic) by Orthodox Slavs but extinct as a vernacular
: also called Old Church Slavic

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