Changes in the Church Slavonic in the 14th - 15th Centuries

0517420 - SLÚ 2021 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Knoll, Vladislav
Changes in the Church Slavonic in the 14th - 15th Centuries.
Slavia. Roč. 88, č. 3 (2019), s. 252-279. ISSN 0037-6736
R&D Projects: GA MK DG16P02H024
Keywords : Church Slavonic * Second South Slavonic Influence * Serbian Church Slavonic * Bulgarian Church Slavonic * Romanian Church Slavonic
OECD category: Specific languages
Method of publishing: Metadata only

The evolution of the language of religious writings in Slavia Orthodoxa in the Late Middle Ages has been discussed many times mainly from the perspective of the history of current national languages. In our paper, we focus just on the dynamics of orthography development. Taking account of the Standard Church Slavonic of that period as a whole, we follow appearance and use of the same letters in all its areal varieties observing the criteria of regularity and variability of the letter distribution. In contrast with the traditional approach, we do not compare the areal varieties with the reconstructed Old Church Slavonic, but evaluate them within the context of neighbouring written varieties and their vernacular substrate. Due to the limited space, we show just the general tendencies, which led to the decreasing of difference between the areal varieties and their geographical regrouping.
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