Old Church Slavonic (862 AD-1050) - slověnĭskŭ językŭ


In 862 AD Prince Rastislav of Great Moravia, which corresponded to the modern southern Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary (Slavic-speaking until the Hungarians started to arrive there in 895) asked the Byzantine Emperor, Michael III, if he would introduce Christianity to his heathen country. Consequently, two Byzantine missionaries, Cyril and Methodius, accepted this task. As the Slavs didn’t have a written language, they constructed the Glagolitic alphabet. This was better suited to the Slavonic sounds than the Greek alphabet was. Cyril and Methodius began translating Christian books into the Slavonic language spoken nearby, to the north of their home town in northern Greece, Thessaloniki. Today’s Macedonian and Bulgarian languages meet to the north of Thessaloniki. At that time all the dialects of Slavonic were so similar that books written in Old Church Slavonic, as it came to be known, could be used throughout the Slavic regions.


1. bratrŭ    brother        1.           1.   
2. sestra    sister        2.           2.   
3. synŭ    son        3.           3. Razuměti    To understand
4. dŭšti    daughter        4.           4.   
5. otĭcĭ    father                  5.   
6. mati    mother        1. nedělja    Sunday        6.   
          2. ponedělŭkŭ    Monday        7.   
1. vesna    spring        3. vŭtornikŭ    Tuesday          
2. lěto    summer        4. srěda    Wednesday        1. (azŭ) jesmĭ    I am



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