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The number of letters in the original Glagolitic alphabet is not known, but it may have been close to its presumed Greek model. The 41 letters known today include letters for non-Greek sounds, which may have been added by Saint Cyril, as well as ligatures added in the 12th century under the influence of Cyrillic, as Glagolitic lost its ...
The theory that Glagolitic script was created before Cyrillic was first put forth by G. Dobner in 1785, [1] and since Pavel Jozef Šafárik's 1857 study of Glagolitic monuments, Über den Ursprung und die Heimat des Glagolitismus, there has been a virtual consensus in the academic circles that St. Cyril developed the Glagolitic alphabet, rather than the Cyrillic. [2]
The Glagolitic alphabet is believed to have been created by Saints Cyril and Methodius, while the Cyrillic alphabet was created by Clement of Ohrid, their disciple. They feature many letters that appear to have been borrowed from or influenced by Greek and Hebrew.
List of Glagolitic inscriptions (16th century) Lists of Glagolitic inscriptions; List of Glagolitic manuscripts (900–1199) List of Glagolitic manuscripts (1200–1399) List of Glagolitic manuscripts (1400–1499) List of Glagolitic manuscripts (1900–present) Lists of Glagolitic manuscripts; List of Glagolitic manuscripts (1500–1599)
The earliest form of manuscript Cyrillic, known as ustav, was based on Greek uncial script, augmented by ligatures and by letters from the Glagolitic alphabet for consonants not found in Greek. [ 3 ] The Glagolitic script was created by the Byzantine monk Saint Cyril , possibly with the aid of his brother Saint Methodius , around 863. [ 3 ]
Cursive Glagolitic survived as a book hand longer than in Western Europe thanks to a lack of printing presses that were able or willing to satisfy the demand. Angular Glagolitic secured its status as the script of print thanks to its continued use for the most sacred texts, without any threat in this domain until the 19th century.
The Glagolitic alphabet, devised in the 9th century for writing Old Church Slavonic; The Cyrillic script, which replaced the Glagolitic alphabet shortly afterwards. The Coptic Alphabet used for writing the Coptic language. The Armenian and Georgian alphabets are almost certainly modeled on the Greek alphabet, but their graphic forms are quite ...
Below are lists of Glagolitic inscriptions by date. List of early Glagolitic inscriptions (before 1500) List of Glagolitic inscriptions (16th century) List of later Glagolitic inscriptions (after 1600)