Old Church Slavonic
medieval Slavic literary language, without ISO codes, preceding Church Slavonic (Q33251, cu, chu)
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Summary
Old Church Slavonic is a dead language[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of dead language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,377 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Kievan Rus'[3], Bulgaria[4], Great Moravia[5], First Bulgarian Empire[6]
- Instance of: ancient language[7], extinct language[8]
- Subclass of: South Slavic[9]
- Writing system: Early Cyrillic alphabet[10], Glagolitic[11]
- Part of: Church Slavonic[12]
- Topic's main category: Category:Old Church Slavonic language[13]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[15]
- Replaced by: Church Slavonic[16]
- Topic has template: Template:Lang-cu[17], Q139582271[18]
- Native label: Словѣньскъ ѩꙁꙑкъ[19], Словѣньскъ[20]
- Short name: старобългарски[21]
- Different from: Church Slavonic[22], Proto-Slavic[23]
- UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[24]
- Indigenous to: Slavs[25], Eastern Europe[26], Southern Europe[27]
- Female form of label: la langue vieux-slave[28]
- Ethnologue language status: 6b Threatened[29]
- Linguistic typology: nominative–accusative language[30], fusional language[31]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Languages[32], WikiProject Eastern Orthodoxy[33], WikiProject Middle Ages[34], WikiProject European history[35], WikiProject Bulgaria[36], WikiProject North Macedonia[37], WikiProject Serbia[38], WikiProject Bosnia and Herzegovina[39], WikiProject Croatia[40], WikiProject Byzantine world[41]
Why It Matters
Old Church Slavonic has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[42] It is known by 120 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]