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A question as about the Glagolitic

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    Posted: 19-Jun-2006 at 15:23
While variants of the Cyrillic alphabet have been in use to write Slavic (and some Central Asian, non-Slavic) languages for more than a thousand years, there was another alphabet, so called Glagolitic (from Old Church Slavonic glagol meaning "word"), that was used side-by-side to Cyrillic in the early history of writing in Eastern Europe.

The oldest recorded form of a Slavic language is Old Church Slavonic, which used both Cyrillic (with 44 letters!) and its version of Glagolitic, which looks like this:
 

 
My question is where St. Cyril  (the person that who invented Glagolitic) found these symbols in order to create the first old Slavonic Alphabete or Glagolitic as is also known ?
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  Quote NikeBG Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20-Jun-2006 at 08:53
IIRC, the chroniclers say that he, together with his brother Methodius, closed themselves in a monastery (IIRC, Polychrom monastery) and made the alphabet themselves. And that sounds acceptable enough. The Cyrillic f.e. has pretty much loan letter from the Greek alphabet, but the Glagolitic one looks kinds extraterrestrial (therefore, IIRC, it was used in the "ET" movie)...
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  Quote The Chargemaster Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23-Jun-2006 at 04:28
I think, that according to the bulgarian historiography, these symbols are product of their authors - Cyril & Methodius. For me, that`s all.


Edited by The Chargemaster - 23-Jun-2006 at 04:28
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