Glagolitic

  1. Adjective.  Of or written with the Glagolitic alphabet.
  2. Adjective.  Denoting Slavic Roman Catholic rites in Dalmatia.
  3. Noun.  (linguistics) The oldest known Slavonic alphabet, designed around 862–863 (C.E.) by Saint Cyril in order to translate the Bible and other texts into Old Church Slavonic. Mostly replaced by Cyrillic alphabet in Orthodox Christian Slavic countries, but still in use in the Croatian Church along the Dalmatian coast, in Czech and Croatian recensions of Church Slavic.

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