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Preferred term

chuOld Slavonic  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Old Church Slavonic or Old Church Slavic (OCS) (, slověnĭskŭ językŭ) was the first literary Slavic language, developed by the 9th century Byzantine Greek missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius who were credited with standardizing the language and using it for translating the Bible and other Ancient Greek ecclesiastical texts as part of the Christianisation of the Slavic peoples. It played an important role in the history of the Slavic languages and served as a basis and model for later Church Slavonic traditions, and some Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches use Church Slavonic as a liturgical language to this day.

Entry terms

  • Bulgarian, Old
  • Church Slavic
  • Church Slavonic
  • Old Bulgarian
  • Old Church Slavonic
  • Slavic, Church
  • Slavonic, Church
  • Slavonic, Old
  • Slavonic, Old Church

ISO 639-1 code

  • cu

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • chu

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • chu

ISO 639-3 code

  • chu

Notation

  • chu

In other languages

  • Vieux-slave

    French

  • slavon d'église
  • slavon d’église
  • Kirchenslawisch

    German

  • Altkirchenslawische Sprache
  • slavo della Chiesa

    Italian

  • Antico slavo ecclesiastico
  • eslavo eclesiástico

    Portuguese

  • Antigo eslavo eclesiástico
  • eslavo eclesiástico

    Spanish

  • Antiguo eslavo eclesiástico

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/chu

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