Glagolitic alphabet
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English
Etymology
From Slavic glagol or hlahol, meaning sound.
Noun phrase
- An alphabet designed in the ninth century CE by Saint Cyril in order to translate the Bible and other texts into Old Church Slavonic.
Synonyms
- Bukvitsa (rare), Glagolitsa, Hieronymian, Illyrian (rare), Slovenish
Translations
- Bulgarian: глаголица
- Czech: hlaholice
- German: Glagolica
- Polish: głagolica
- Russian: глаголица
- Slovak: hlaholika f
See also
- Cyrillic alphabet
- Wikipedia article on the Glagolitic alphabet