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Pre-Christian Slavic writing is a hypothesized writing system that may have been used by the Slavs prior to Christianization and the introduction of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets. No extant evidence of pre-Christian Slavic writing exists, but early Slavic forms of writing or proto-writing may have been mentioned in several early ...
A hypothetical pre-Glagolitic writing system is typically referred to as cherty i rezy (strokes and incisions) [72] – but no material evidence of the existence of any pre-Glagolitic Slavic writing system has been found, except for a few brief and vague references in old chronicles and "lives of the saints".
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]
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This letter does not exist in the oldest (South Slavic) Cyrillic manuscripts, but only in East Slavic ones. [3] It was probably not present in the original Cyrillic alphabet. [1] Called юсъ малый йотированный (iotated little yus) in Russian. Ѯ ѯ: ѯи: ksi ks k͡s [ks̪] 60 Greek Xi Ξ xi (letter name)
The Slavs were Christianized in waves from the 7th to 12th century, though the process of replacing old Slavic religious practices began as early as the 6th century. [1] Generally speaking, the monarchs of the South Slavs adopted Christianity in the 9th century , the East Slavs in the 10th , and the West Slavs between the 9th and 12th century.
The Evangelist John, a miniature from the Ostromir Gospel, mid-11th century. Old East Slavic literature, [1] also known as Old Russian literature, [2] [3] is a collection of literary works of Rus' authors, which includes all the works of ancient Rus' theologians, historians, philosophers, translators, etc., and written in Old East Slavic.
A page from the oldest (1348) copy. Chernorizets Hrabar is the credited author of only one literary work, "On the Letters" (Church Slavonic: О писмєньхъ, O pismenĭhŭ, Bulgarian: За буквите), a popular medieval treatise written in Old Church Slavonic.