Glagolitic alphabet

The Glagolitic alphabet was invented during the 9th century by the missionaries St Cyril (827-869 AD) and St Methodius (826-885 AD) in order to translate the Bible and other religious works into the language of the Great Moravia region. They probably modelled Glagolitic on a cursive form of the Greek alphabet, and based their translations on a Slavic dialect of the Thessalonika area, which formed the basis of the literary standard known as Old Church Slavonic.

Old Church Slavonic was used as the liturgical language of the Russian Orthodox church between the 9th and 12th centuries. A more modern form of the language, known as Church Slavonic, appeared during the 14th century and is still used in the Russian Orthodox church.

Glagolitic alphabet

This chart shows the Glagolitic alphabet with the names of the letters in Old Church Slavonic, the Cyrillic and Latin equivalents of the letters, and IPA transcription.

Glagolitic alphabet

Glagolitic alphabet improved by Michael Peter Füstumum

Download a Glagolitic alphabet chart (Excel)

Cursive version of the Glagolitic alphabet

Cursive version of the Glagolitic alphabet

Cursive Glagolitic provided by Igor Kusin

Sample text

ⰲⱐⱄⰻ ⰱⱁ ⰾⱓⰴⰻⰵ ⱃⱁⰴⱔⱅⱏ ⱄⱔ ⱄⰲⱁⰱⱁⰴⱐⱀⰻ ⰻ ⱃⰰⰲⱐⱀⰻ ⰲⱏ ⰴⱁⱄⱅⱁⰻⱀⱐⱄⱅⰲⱑ ⰻ ⰸⰰⰽⱁⱀⱑ· ⱁⱀⰻ ⱄⱘⱅⱏ ⱁⰴⰰⱃⰵⱀⰻ ⱃⰰⰸⱆⰿⱁⰿⱐ ⰻ ⱄⱏⰲⱑⰴⰻⱙ ⰻ ⰴⱏⰾⰶⱐⱀⰻ ⱄⱘⱅⱏ ⰴⱑⰰⱅⰻ ⰲⱏ ⰴⱆⱄⱑ ⰱⱃⰰⱅⱐⱄⱅⰲⰰ·

Transliteration

Vĭsi bo ljudije rodętŭ sę svobodĭni i ravĭni vŭ dostoinĭstvě i z​akoně. Oni sǫtŭ odarjeni razumomĭ i sŭvědijǫ i dŭlžĭni sǫtŭ dějati vŭ dusě bratĭstva.

Translation by Siemoród Wędzki. Provided by Corey Murray

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Links

Information about the Glagolitic alphabet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_alphabet
http://www.bulgaria.com/welkya/kritika/slave2.html
http://www.hr/darko/etf/et03.html

The Budapest Glagolitic Fragments - two fragments from a parchment manuscript containing nine lines of text from the Old Slavonic translation of the Life of St Symeon Stylites written in round glagolitic script: http://web.archive.org/web/20070208101114/http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~cleminsr/introd.html

Information about St Cyril and St Methodius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Cyril
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Methodius

Glagolitic fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Glagolitic.html
http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/gl-font.html

ALPHABETUM - a Unicode font for ancient scripts, including Classical & Medieval Latin, Ancient Greek, Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Faliscan, Messapic, Picene, Iberian, Celtiberian, Gothic, Runic, Old & Middle English, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Old Nordic, Ogham, Kharosthi, Glagolitic, Anatolian scripts, Phoenician, Brahmi, Imperial Aramaic, Old Turkic, Old Permic, Ugaritic, Linear B, Phaistos Disc, Meroitic, Coptic, Cypriot and Avestan.
https://www.typofonts.com/alphabetum.html

Alphabets

A-chik Tokbirim, Adinkra, ADLaM, Armenian, Avestan, Avoiuli, Bassa (Vah), Beitha Kukju, Beria (Zaghawa), Borama / Gadabuursi, Carian, Carpathian Basin Rovas, Chinuk pipa, Chisoi, Coorgi-Cox, Coptic, Cyrillic, Dalecarlian runes, Elbasan, Etruscan, Faliscan, Fox, Galik, Georgian (Asomtavruli), Georgian (Nuskhuri), Georgian (Mkhedruli), Glagolitic, Global Alphabet, Gothic, Greek, Irish (Uncial), Kaddare, Kayah Li, Khatt-i-Badí’, Khazarian Rovas, Koch, Korean, Latin, Lepontic, Luo Lakeside Script, Lycian, Lydian, Manchu, Mandaic, Mandombe, Marsiliana, Medefaidrin, Messapic, Mongolian, Mro, Mundari Bani, Naasioi Otomaung, N'Ko, North Picene, Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong, Odùduwà, Ogham, Old Church Slavonic, Oirat Clear Script, Ol Chiki (Ol Cemet' / Santali), Old Italic, Old Nubian, Old Permic, Ol Onal, Orkhon, Osage, Oscan, Osmanya (Somali), Pau Cin Hau, Phrygian, Pollard script, Runic, Székely-Hungarian Rovás (Hungarian Runes), South Picene, Sutton SignWriting, Sunuwar, Tai Viet, Tangsa, Todhri, Toto, Umbrian, (Old) Uyghur, Wancho, Yezidi, Zoulai

Other writing systems

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