Glagolitic alphabet

The Glagolitic alphabet is the first Slavic alphabet created in 862 or 863 by St. Cyril and Methodius. This alphabet was used in more Slavic lands: Bohemia and Moravia, 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 Latin alphabet. There are two types of the Glagolitic alphabet; one is Angular Glagolitic alphabet and the other is Round Glagolitic alphabet.

Name[edit]

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 the modern Slavic language:

Belarusian: глаголіца / hlaholitsa
Bulgarian: глаголица / glagolitza
Croatian: glagoljica
Czech: hlaholice
Hungarian: glagolita/ glagolica
Macedonian: глаголица / glagolica
Polish: głagolica
Russian: глаголица / glagólitsa
Serbo-Croatian: glagoljica/глагољица
Slovene: glagolica
Slovak: hlaholika
Ukrainian: глаголиця / hlaholytsia

Table[edit]

Note: This table is ordered by the English name of the letters. See Image:Glagolica.gif for the alphabet's own order.


Az	Buki	Cherv	Dobro	Dzelo	Dzherv	Fert	Glagol	I	Izhe

Izhitsa	Jat	Jer	Jerj	Jery	Jest	Jo	Ju	Jus "E"	Jus "Je"

Jus "Jo"	Jus "O"	Kako	Kher	Ljudi	Mislete	Nash	Oht	On	Pokoj

Rtsi	Sha	Shta	Slovo	Thita	Tsi	Tverdo	Uk	Vedi	Zemlja

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