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Црькъвьнословѣньскъ ѩꙁꙑкъ Church Slavonic

Church Slavonic is the liturgical and literary language of Slavic Orthodox traditions, rooted in early medieval translation and manuscript culture. It’s a practical entry point to medieval Slavic texts and historical linguistics.

Dictionaries

• Lexicon Palaeoslovenico-Graeco-Latinum

  • Notes: An immensely important work, but you’ll need to know some Greek and Latin to use it.

• Old Church Slavonic Base Form Dictionary

  • Notes: For use with the online grammar.

• Old Church Slavonic Master Glossary

  • Notes: For use with the online grammar and lessons; see below. Still Regardless, a very useful list.

• Old Church Slavonic English Meanings Index

  • Notes: An English-OCS dictionary.

• Old Church Slavonic Glossary

  • Format: PDF
  • Notes: A very nice PDF with lots of words.

• OCS Vocabulary List

  • Notes: A list of some words.

• OCS Useful Abbreviations

  • Format: PDF
  • Notes: For common words in the scriptures.

Grammars

• Old Church Slavonic Grammar

  • Notes: From the University of Texas. Contains lessons as well for learning the language.

• Palaeoslovenicum Grammar

  • Notes: Written in Latin.

• Church Slavonic E-Tutor

  • Notes: A downloadable program intended to help learn the language and learn some liturgy as well.

• Help Me Learn OCS

  • Notes: That’s the purpose of this extremely useful website. Contains tables, grammar discussion, and many other tools.

Charts & Aids

• Old Church Slavonic Keyboard

  • Notes: Useful for entering the real characters.

• OCS Nouns

  • Notes: Various tables and charts.

• OCS Verbs

  • Notes: Various tables and charts.

• Noun Charts

  • Notes: The first two links on the page have some charts.

• Diacritic Helps

  • Notes: Information on their proper use.

Texts

• Slavonic Bible Program

  • Notes: An excellent program for reading the OCS Bible, both the OT and the NT, plus the text in Greek, Latin, French, German, and others. You must enter a password to install the program. To get the password, visit http://yegor.info/bible and email the proprietor. He will respond quickly with the password. Do not miss this program.

• OCS New Testament

  • Format: PDF
  • Notes: A beautiful PDF file.

• Church Slavonic Bible

  • Format: PDF
  • Notes: Viewable online and has downloadable PDF files as well. A great site.

• Quattuor Evangeliorum Codex Glagoliticus

  • Notes: The four gospels in OCS.

• Quattuor Evangeliorum Codex Marianus

  • Notes: The four gospels from another manuscript.

• Old Church Slavonic Electronic Corpus

  • Notes: The characater encoding is an issue here, but it’s a great site with a number of different texts.

• Old Church Slavonic Prayers

  • Notes: Text plus downloadable MP3 files.

• Codex Suprasliensis

  • Notes: One of the oldest pieces of literature in the language.

• Old Church Slavonic Textual Sources

  • Notes: Site is in German, but contains a great deal of useful information.

• Old Slavonic Sample Manuscripts

  • Notes: Pictures of different pieces.

Other Resources

• Inventory of Slavic and Other Digital Projects

  • Notes: A long list of project sites that you can visit for more information on Slavic and other Eastern European topics.

• The Greek NT and the Old Slavonic Version

  • Format: PDF
  • Notes: An introduction and discussion of some points of interest.

• Slavic General Information

  • Notes: Some general items on the history and culture.

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