Glagolitic alphabet

**Glagolitic**
	oldest known Slavic alphabet
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Pronunciation audio	Macedonianⓘ
Instance of	alphabet; unicase alphabet; writing system; natural writing system;
Part of	Church Slavonic;
Location	Great Moravia
Creator	Saints Cyril and Methodius;
Language of work or name	Old Church Slavonic; Croatian; Church Slavonic; Bulgarian; Serbian;
Has part(s)	Glagolitic letter; Glagolitic numerals;
Inception	862 (before 863);
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The Glagolitic alphabet is the first Slavic alphabet created in 862 or 863 by Sts. Cyril and Methodius. This alphabet was used in more Slavic lands: Bohemia and Moravia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Kievan Rus etc. It was mostly used in Croatia, where it remained till 19th century but from 16th century onwards it slowly gave way to the Latin alphabet. There are two types of the Glagolitic alphabet; one is Angular Glagolitic alphabet and the other is Round Glagolitic alphabet.

Name

In English this alphabet is called Glagolitic, name that is coined centuries after the alphabet was invented. The name comes from the Slavic word glagolъ, which means speak or utterance. It has been conjectured that the name glagolitsa developed in Croatia around the 14th century and was derived from the word glagolity, applied to adherents of the liturgy in Slavonic. In the following list are given the names of the alphabet in modern Slavic languages:

Belarusian (be): глаголіца (hlaholitsa)
Bulgarian (bg): глаголица (glagolitza)
Church Slavonic (cu): Кѷрїлловица / ⰍⰫⰓⰊⰎⰎⰑⰂⰊⰜⰀ
Croatian (hr): glagoljica
Czech (cs): hlaholice
Hungarian (hu): glagolita / glagolica
Lower Sorbian (dsb): glagolica
Macedonian (mk): глаголица (glagolica)
Polish (pl): głagolica / glaholica
Russian (ru): глаголица (glagólitsa)
Serbian (sr): глагољица (glagoljica)
Serbo-Croatian (sh): glagoljica / глагољица
Slovene (sl): glagolica
Slovak (sk): hlaholika
Ukrainian (uk): глаголиця (hlaholytsia)
Upper Sorbian (hsb): glagolica

Letters of the Glagolitic alphabet

This table, showing letters in sans-serif rounded form (Bulgarian, glyphs used in the Segoe UI Historic font) above letters in sans-serif squared form (Croatian, glyphs used in the Noto Sans Glagolitic font), is ordered by the English common name of letters (alternate English names used in the Unicode/ISO/IEC 10646 standards are added on a second line between parentheses):

U+2C00
az
(azu)

U+2C01
buki

U+2C1D
cherv
(chrivi)

U+2C04
dobro

U+2C07
dzelo

U+2C0C
dzherv
(djervi)

U+2C17
fert
(fritu)

U+2C03
glagol
(glagoli)

U+2C0B
i

U+2C09
izhe

U+2C0A
izhe (initial)

U+2C2B
izhitsa

U+2C21
jat
(yati)

U+2C1F
jer
(yeru)

U+2C20
jerj
(yeri)

U+2C05
jest
(yestu)

U+2C26
jo
(yo)

U+2C23
ju
(yu)

U+2C24
jus “e”
(small yus)

U+2C27
jus “je”
(iotated small yus)

U+2C29
jus “jo”
(iotated big yus)

U+2C28
jus “o”
(big yus)

U+2C0D
kako

U+2C18
kher
(heru)

U+2C0E
ljudi
(ljudije)

U+2C0F
mislete
(myslite)

U+2C2E
myslite (latinate)

U+2C10
nash
(nashi)

U+2C19
oht
(otu)

U+2C11
on
(onu)

U+2C1A
pe

U+2C12
pokoj
(pokoji)

U+2C13
rtsi
(ritsi)

U+2C2C
semi-voiced/poluglas
(shtapic)

U+2C1E
sha

U+2C1B
shta

U+2C14
slovo

U+2C25
small yus with tail

U+2C22
spidery ha

U+2C2A
thita
(fita)

U+2C2C
trokutasti a

U+2C1C
tsi

U+2C15
tverdo
(tvrido)

U+2C16
uk
(uku)

U+2C02
vedi
(vede)

U+2C08
zemlja

U+2C06
zhivete

Same table ordered by Unicode code point values (only the capital letters in the main Unicode Glagolitic block in range U+2C00-U+2C2E; see also File:Glagolica.gif for a partial alphabet's own order):