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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 Church Slavonic language belonging to...European family of languages (see Slavic languages ). Although...the liturgical language of most branches...Church, Church Slavonic is extinct today...variously termed Old Church Slavonic...
SLAV(ON)IC LANGUAGES
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...INDO-EUROPEAN language family spoken primarily...divided into East Slavonic ( RUSSIAN , Ukrainian...Byelorussian), West Slavonic (Polish, Czech...Lusatian), and South Slavonic (Old Church Slavonic, Macedonian...Slovene). Slavonic languages also divide into...
Ukrainian Literature and Language
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...adoption of the Church Slavonic language...could function as languages of learning and...form. A Church Slavonic apostol (Acts and...printing in the language, at Ostrih in 1580...edition of Church Slavonic liturgical books...uses for popular languages, ...
Russian Literature and Language
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE RUSSIAN LITERATURE...The category of "old Russian literature...and written in Slavonic or Russian prior...undifferentiated old Russian culture with...read outside of the church service. All of...Russian (as opposed to Slavonic) literary ...
Russian language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...people as a first language. It used by at...million as a second language in the countries...one of the chief languages of the world. Used...also have made the language culturally significant...not Russian, but Church Slavonic . However, within...Russian elements is an Old ...
Bulgarian language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Bulgarian language member of...group of the Slavonic subfamily...family of languages (see Slavic languages ). Bulgarian...the official language. It is also...language. Old Bulgarian...called Old Church Slavonic (see Church...
Orthodox Eastern Church
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the Orthodox churches) is not technical...see catholic church ). The word...and Armenian churches; it also involves...the original language was Greek...adapted into Slavonic, Arabic, Estonian...and many other languages. The liturgy...governing churches. The church ...
Macedonians
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...preservation of its Slavonic heritage and religious...Indo-European language of the Slavonic family. Like most Slavonic languages, Macedonian is...her. At last, an old healer took on the...country, the Orthodox Church honors its own regional...
Russian Orthodox Clergy
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...in parish churches, as necessary...services in Church Slavonic, the archaic language of the church...Muscovite Orthodox Church) and the...the Moscow Church Council of...taxing parish churches and monasteries...celibate is an old and controversial...
Slav Macedonians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...this "Macedonian" language had become the language used in all levels...Branch of Slavic languages. Despite the existence of an official Language, the Slav dialects...the rural areas. Old Church Slavonic, the liturgical...

Dictionary entries related to "Old Church Slavonic language"

church
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable church a building used for public...The word is recorded from Old English (in form cir...Presbyterian until 1690. Church Slavonic the liturgical language used in the Orthodox Church...It is a modified form of Old Church Slavonic.
Glagolitic Mass
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...taken by Janáček from church magazine. He mistakenly called Old Slavonic language of time of St Cyril and St Methodius (9th...x2019;, which properly refers only to Old Slavonic script and alphabet. Mus. contains important...
Enoch, Books of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...reflected in the NT. 2. Enoch, or ‘Slavonic Enoch’, or ‘The Book...Enoch’, which survives only in Old Church Slavonic (the language of the Russian Church), has points of contact with 1 Enoch. About...
old
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable old in a number of names...social background. Old Church Slavonic the oldest recorded Slavic language, as used by the apostles...the Southern Slavic languages. Old Colony an informal...Old English the language of the Anglo-Saxons...

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Animal Names in Bulgarian: Balkan versus Slavonic in the Nineteenth Century
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...and Russian Church Slavonic and modern Russian...the Bulgarian language was strongly exposed...gradually replaced by Slavonic words from Bulgarian...Russian (Church Slavonic in older periods) and...West European languages. Within this...
Russian Church pays tribute to terrorism victims.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 9/11/2006; 515 words ; Russian Church pays tribute to terrorism victims Moscow...the St. Catherine the Great Martyr Church in the Russian capital to all innocent...which would be conducted in English and Old Church Slavonic languages, would be attended by Ambassadors...
A CHURCH OF MANY HERITAGES
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 10/21/1999; ; 670 words ; ...10-21-1999 A CHURCH OF MANY HERITAGES...Orthodox Christian churches have an additional...Anthony Orthodox Church, which has always...hear the Greek language, various Slavonic languages, Romanian, or...Anthony's annual Old World Festival...Still, the main language of ...
MARKING 100 YEARS OF CHURCH TRADITIONS
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 9/13/1998; ; 637 words ; ...pastor of the church. The site, purchased...addition to the church which was completed...festival among local churches and visits from...welcomed in the church, we are trying...both English and Slavonic, the language of the Russian Orthodox...traditions from the old country ...
Ruling due on effort to shut Jehovah's Witness church in Moscow.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 6/14/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...have been trying to shut down the church for nearly six years, charging...especially among young people. The church today is seen as rich, conservative...example, is still recited in Old Church Slavonic, a language virtually incomprehensible to...
Growing faith: Greek Orthodox church has become home to a diverse group of worshipers.(Company overview)
Newspaper article from: Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA); 5/26/2007; 700+ words ; ...more than a dozen languages spoken by this...repeats the words in Old Church Slavonic, a Slavic language sometimes used...Holy Trinity, a church that was established...anniversary of its church building this weekend...United States, the church provided a community...by ...
JOHN KAHANICK, 83; CANTOR AT BYZANTINE CATHOLIC CHURCHES
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 3/4/1998; ; 670 words ; ...arranged music from Old Slavonic to English for...senior choirs at churches in Pennsylvania...melodies from Old Slavonic. He was an exceptional man." Old Slavonic is the root language of many Eastern...The Catholic Church's efforts to...
From PIE to OCS: ALG or MAC?*
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...The Slavonic languages present a real...British usage, Slavonic will be used...highly inflecting language. Its morphology...development of the Slavonic languages led to the annihilation...in Common Slavonic (CS) the basic...languages. The oldest recorded form of ...
NEW CHURCH IS SMALL SHOW OF HARMONY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/18/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Immaculate Conception Church, one of the churches shuttered by the...been inside the old place in a while...Serbian, and Church Slavonic, an old language used only in Orthodox...Eastern and Western churches, notably Rome and...
Greek Orthodox Church resounds in celebration of the Resurrection
Newspaper article from: Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA; 4/7/2007; ; 584 words ; ...week behind Western churches, it is being celebrated...which the Orthodox church uses) and Gregorian...which Western churches use) coincide every...prophecies in the Old Testament. Scattered...in every Orthodox church for at least the...in many different languages," Goussetis ...