Slavonic
Old church language
Slavonic refers to the Slavic languages and peoples of Eastern Europe.
The term appears most often in historical or academic contexts: Old Church Slavonic, the Slavonic languages.
It functions as a slightly archaic or formal alternative to Slavic, which has become the dominant form in modern English.
Eastern Slavic language
- PolishSmooth to a shine
- CzechOf Prague's homeland
- BulgarianOf or from Sofia's country
- SerbianOf or from Serbia
Croatian · Ukrainian · Belarusian · Bosnian · Montenegrin · Macedonian · Slovenian · Balkans
Study of historical texts
- etymologyWord origin study
- grammarLanguage's structural rules
- syntaxRules for arranging words
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
phonetics · semantics · lexicography · dialectology · protolanguage · Cyrillic · manuscript · comparative
Formal worship structure
- ByzantineOf Constantinople's civilization
- ecclesiasticalRelating to church matters
- iconsRepresentative small images
- saintsCanonized religious figures
monasteries · chants · liturgical · patriarchate · vestments · incense · frescoes · hagiography
Sequential historical accounts
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- tribesAncestral social groups
- migrationsLarge-scale population movements
kingdoms · Moravia · Bohemia · folklore · traditions · sagas · ancestors · artifacts
Russian
Eastern Slavic language
Serbian · Croatian · Ukrainian · Belarusian · Bosnian · Montenegrin · Macedonian · Slovenian · Balkans · Eastern European
philology
Study of historical texts
morphology · phonetics · semantics · lexicography · dialectology · protolanguage · Cyrillic · manuscript · comparative · sociolinguistics
liturgy
Formal worship structure
- ByzantineOf Constantinople's civilization
- ecclesiasticalRelating to church matters
- iconsRepresentative small images
saints · monasteries · chants · liturgical · patriarchate · vestments · incense · frescoes · hagiography · psalter
chronicles
Sequential historical accounts
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- tribesAncestral social groups
migrations · kingdoms · Moravia · Bohemia · folklore · traditions · sagas · ancestors · artifacts · barrows
SlavonicGermanic
Of Teutonic language stock
Western European · Anglo-Saxon · Mediterranean · Nordic · Scandinavian
- Church SlavonicSlavic liturgical language
- Old Church SlavonicFirst Slavic literary language