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Font: Old Church Slavonic
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Depicting an older stage of the Cyrillic alphabet, Old Church Slavonic script, also known as 'Old Bulgarian', is unequivocally bound to the language of the same name. In the 9th century AD, the first translation of Christian texts into a Slavic language captured a particular dialect of South Slavonic. Two scripts, Glagolitic and Cyrillic, existed side by side for some time. Later on, Cyrillic became the dominant script for most Slavic regions. Since the religious texts went hand in hand with the spread of Christianity among the Slavs, the language became known as 'Old Church Slavonic'. Later in history, the script, as well as its style, came to be known by the same name. As a writing medium, Old Church Slavonic script embodies interesting features which reflect its origins. The shapes of its letters point clearly to their origin in uncial Greek writing. Likewise, in large part, the order of the alphabet is borrowed from Greek. Linguistically, Old Church Slavonic script captures features such as nasal vowels which were specific to the Slavic dialect it originally transcribed. After the Middle Ages, new secular writings in vernacular Slavic languages led to the transformation of Old Church Slavonic script into Modern Cyrillic. (For further details, see 'Cyrillic').
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