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Slavonic Language and Liturgy — • Although the Latin holds the chief place among the liturgical languages in which the Mass is celebrated and the praise of God recited in the Divine Offices, yet the Slavonic language comes next to it among the languages widely used throughout… … Catholic encyclopedia
Church Slavonic language — Church Slavonic (endonyms) Macedonian: црковнослoвeнски jaзик Bulgarian: църковнославянски език Russian: це … Wikipedia
Old Church Slavonic language — or Old Church Slavic language Oldest attested Slavic language, known from a small corpus of 10th or 11th century manuscripts, most written in the Glagolitic alphabet (see Cyrillic alphabet). The Old Church Slavonic documents, all translations… … Universalium
language — /lang gwij/, n. 1. a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French… … Universalium
Slavonic — adj. & n. adj. 1 of or relating to the group of Indo European languages including Russian, Polish, and Czech. 2 of or relating to the Slavs. n. the Slavonic language group. Phrases and idioms: Old Church Slavonic the earliest written Slavonic… … Useful english dictionary
Slavonic — [[t]sləvɒ̱nɪk[/t]] ADJ Something that is Slavonic relates to East European languages such as Russian, Czech, and Serbo Croat, or to the people who speak them. The Ukrainians speak a Slavonic language similar to Russian. ...the department of… … English dictionary
Language secessionism — or linguistic secessionism is an attitude consisting in separating a language variety from the language to which it normally belongs, in order to make this variety considered as a distinct language. This phenomenon was first analyzed by Catalan… … Wikipedia
Belarusian language — language name=Belarusian/Belorussian nativename=беларуская мова BGN/PCGN: byelaruskaya mova familycolor=Indo European states=Belarus, Poland, in 14 other countries speakers= 4 to 7 million rank=74 fam2=Balto Slavic fam3=Slavic fam4=East Slavic… … Wikipedia
language — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) System of communication Nouns 1. language, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, protolanguage; living or dead language; idiom, parlance, phraseology; wording; dialect, patois, cant, jargon, lingo,… … English dictionary for students
Slavonic — Slavonian Sla*vo ni*an, Slavonic Sla*von ic, a. 1. Of or pertaining to Slavonia, or its inhabitants. [1913 Webster] 2. Of or pertaining to the Slavs, or their language. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
