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Church Slavonic
Church Slavonic language belonging to the South Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages ). Although it is still the liturgical language of most branches of the Orthodox Eastern Church, Church Slavonic is extinct today as a spoken tongue. ... Read more
Russian language
Russian language also called Great Russian, member of the East Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages ). The principal language of administration in the former Soviet Union, Russian is spoken by about 170 million people as a first langua... Read more
Slavic languages
Slavic languages also called Slavonic languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Because the Slavic group of languages seems to be closer to the Baltic group than to any other, some scholars combine the two in a Balto-Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European classification. Today... Read more
The Indo-European Family of Languages
The Indo-European Family of Languages The Indo-European Family of Languages Subfamily Group Subgroup Languages and Principal Dialects  Asterisk indicates a dead language. Anatolian     Hie... Read more
Czech language
Czech language , in the past sometimes also called Bohemian, member of the West Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages ). The official language of the Czech Republic, it is spoken by about 11 million people, of whom over 10 million reside... Read more
Armenian language
Armenian language member of the Thraco-Phrygian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Indo-European ). There is evidence that in ancient times a distinct subfamily of Indo-European languages existed that is now called Thraco-Phrygian. To it belonged Phrygian (an ancient and now e... Read more
Christian liturgy
Christian liturgy [Gr. leitourgia = public duty or worship] form of public worship, particularly the form of rite or services prescribed by the various Christian churches. In the Western Church the principal service centered upon the Eucharistic sacrifice, but with the Protestant Reformation, the... Read more
Gothic language
Gothic language dead language belonging to the now extinct East Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ). Gothic has special value for the linguist because it was recorded several hundred years before the oldest surviving texts of ... Read more
Esperanto
Esperanto , an artificial language introduced in 1887 and intended by its inventor, Dr. Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (1859-1917), a Polish oculist and linguist, to ease communication between speakers of different languages. In the 20th cent. it has been taught in schools and universities throughout the wo... Read more
Afroasiatic languages
Afroasiatic languages , formerly Hamito-Semitic languages , family of languages spoken by more than 250 million people in N Africa; much of the Sahara; parts of E, central, and W Africa; and W Asia (especially the Arabian peninsula, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel). Since four of the Afr... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Old Church Slavonic language"

Church Slavonic
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...AD, this language is variously termed Old Church Slavonic, Old Church...literary language of a number...18th cent. Old Church Slavonic was created...of Greek. Old Church Slavonic is the first Slavic language known to... Read more
Ukrainian Literature and Language
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...dictionaries of Church Slavonic, in which they wished...grammar with facing Slavonic translation, 1591; Lavrentii Zyzanii's Slavonic Grammar, 1596) culminated...Collection of Rules of Slavonic Grammar (1618 –...x2013; 1561), a sort of Slavonic-Ruthenian hybrid, remained in ... Read more
SLAV(ON)IC LANGUAGES
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language SLAV(ON)IC LANGUAGES BrE Slavonic , AmE Slavic . A branch of the INDO-EUROPEAN language family spoken primarily...usually divided into East Slavonic ( RUSSIAN , Ukrainian, Byelorussian), West Slavonic (Polish, Czech, Slovak...Lusatian), and South Slavonic (Old Church ... Read more
Bulgarian language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...over their Slavic language. Old Bulgarian is an...and liturgical language of the 9th to 11th...usually called Old Church Slavonic (see Church Slavonic ). From Old Church Slavonic...of the Bulgarian language for several centuries... Read more
Russian language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...is one of the chief languages of the world. Used officially...Russian also have made the language culturally significant...religious and cultural language of the Russian people was not Russian, but Church Slavonic . However, within Russia the latter language became ... Read more
Czech Literature and Language
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE CZECH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE. The story of Czech language and literature...as a literary language that is more...received Greco-Slavonic literacy and...All of this Old Czech literature...of some early Slavonic traditions, which...standing of the ... Read more
Russian Literature and Language
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE. The category of "old Russian literature...and written in Slavonic or Russian prior...undifferentiated old Russian culture...movement known as Old Believers or Old Ritualists. Edifying...leader of the Old ... Read more
Indo-European languages
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Indo-European languages Family of languages spoken throughout...subgroups: the Germanic languages , the Celtic languages and the Indo-Iranian...Avestan, and the Indic languages – Sanskrit...modern Hindi ). Other languages and groups in the...Greek , the Italic languages ... Read more
The Indo-European Family of Languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Indo-European Family of Languages Subfamily Group Subgroup Languages and Principal Dialects  Asterisk indicates a dead language. Anatolian     Hieroglypic...Lettish), Lithuanian , Old Prussian Celtic Brythonic...Vandalic North Germanic   Old Norse (see Norse ), Danish...Plattdeutsch (see ... Read more
Orthodox Eastern Church
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition community of Christian churches whose chief strength...to one of the Orthodox churches) is not technical, for...Orthodox (see catholic church ). The word Orthodox...Coptic, and Armenian churches; it also involves holding...because the original language was Greek, but the liturgy has been ... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "Old Church Slavonic language"

church
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...word is recorded from Old English (in form cir...or lord’. the Church is an anvil that has...supremacy, bringing the Church under the control of the Crown. Church of Scotland the national (Presbyterian) Christian Church in Scotland. In 1560...reformed the established Church ... Read more
old
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable old in a number...unchanging system. Old Bailey the...Newgate Prison. old boy network...background. Old Church Slavonic the oldest recorded Slavic language, as used by...Southern Slavic languages. Old Colony an...Virginia. Old English the language of ... Read more
Glagolitic Mass
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...Ordinary was taken by Janáček from church magazine. He mistakenly called Old Slavonic language of time of St Cyril and St Methodius...x2019;, which properly refers only to Old Slavonic script and alphabet. Mus. contains important... Read more
Enoch, Books of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...NT. 2. Enoch, or ‘Slavonic Enoch’, or ‘...which survives only in Old Church Slavonic (the language of the Russian Church), has points of contact...authorship, and original language opinions have differed... Read more

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Landslide of the Norm: Language Culture in Post-Soviet Russia.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...unpretentious texts'. The language of these stories is...breaking not only the language norm but also 'sanctimonious...taboos, by showing that language could be an instrument...examines Iurii Buida's language in depth and concludes...approach--he studies the language of Viktor ... Read more
The status of Dearr and ??earf in Old English.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies; 8/6/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...which in Old English were...unlike other Old English premodal...Germanic languages. Nevertheless, in Old English they...properties. The language material...editions of Old English texts...alpha][nu], Old Church Slavonic drbzate...Germanic languages: Gothic ... Read more
Ostern. Geschichte eines Wortes.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...other Germanic languages use the loan-wo...interdisciplinary coverage (language, history, liturgy...into Western Slavonic. The author...attested in Old Norse ausa...ceremony of the Church. Here the author...time in the church year for this...the missionary Church, for ... Read more
The common word: Recovering liturgical speech.(prayer)
Newspaper article from: Cross Currents; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...profound language; one is made...time and language. Both need...established language of piety, whether that language was Latin...English. (Church Slavonic, surviving...deserts. The old consolations...incredible, the old language impenetrable...Resenting the ... Read more
Sakrale Grundlagen slavischer Literaturen.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...manuscript tradition of the Church Slavonic and Latin texts presented...material of the Eastern Church, covering the time from the Old Church in the Greek-speaking area...existing editions, its language and sources, as well as...seventeenth century by way of Old Church ... Read more
Back to Bulgaria: after the grim days of Todor Zhivkov, Bulgaria is now an improbably cheerful venue of post-Communism. (personal observations that contrast Bulgaria of 1948 with that of 1993) (Back to Bulgaria)
Magazine article from: National Review; 1/24/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...for some years, and in whose language I am fluent. The reason for...officers to learn certain languages. One was Bulgarian. I put...you signed it. The School of Slavonic Studies was a wonderful working...written to Ilya Kovachev, an old friend from that earlier period...because the Bulgarian ... Read more
Famed scholar has never been one for diplomacy. (Illuminations).
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 1/11/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...liturgies of Eastern churches, is the guy with the...scours liturgical texts in Old Slavonic the way some people do...sailor's touch for salty language. Taft is the kind of...liturgies in the original languages (Ukranian, Belorussian...Congregation for Eastern Churches. Through his ... Read more
The future of Russian culture in Estonia.
Magazine article from: World Affairs; 1/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...Russian were considered local languages, and this reflected not...the early 1880s, even the language of instruction in the Russian...includes the population of Old Believers who came to the...Peipsi after the Raskol (church reform) of the Russian Church in the seventeenth century...of the ... Read more
THE MYTH OF AN ORTHODOX BLOCK.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...favoured religion and the Church were given legal rights...Armenian, and other local languages, but did not have national...western Roman Empire. Church and State were conceived...empire with hundreds of churches with holy relics and artefacts...Christianity to the Slays in a language they ... Read more
A History of European Versification.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/1999; ; 576 words ; ...Oxford Faculty of Modern Languages and when the translators...illustration of their persistence in Slavonic and Baltic folk verse. A...difficulty of deriving a model for Old Germanic alliterative verse...follow on the evolution of Slavonic literary syllabic verse (Old Church ... Read more