The Glagolitic alphabet ( /ɡlæɡəˈlɪtɪk/), also known as Glagolitsa, (OCS:, Кѷрїлловица) is the oldest known Slavic alphabet from the 9th century. The name was not coined until many centuries after its creation, and comes from the Old Slavic glagolъ "utterance" (also the origin of the Slavic name for the letter G). The verb glagoliti means "to speak". 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.
The name Glagolitic in Belarusian is глаголіца (hłaholica), Bulgarian, Macedonian and Russian глаголица (glagolica), Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian glagoljica / глагољица, Czech hlaholice, Polish głagolica, Slovene glagolica, Slovak hlaholika, and Ukrainian глаголиця (hlaholyća).
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Famous quotes containing the word alphabet:
“I wonder, Mr. Bone man, what you’re thinking
of your fury now, gone sour as a sinking whale,
crawling up the alphabet on her own bones.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)