Old Church Slavonic
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Old Slavonic was the first literary language of the Slavs, also known as Old (medieval) Bulgarian and Old Macedonian, and thus it belongs to the Eastern group of the Southern branch of the Slavic languages. It was used in the Middle Ages and slowly declined afterwards, as it evolved into what is now modern Bulgarian and Macedonian with a reformed version of the Cyrillic Alphabet which would also be used in the East Slavic and Serbo-Croatian languaages, the latter with considerable differences; the other Slavic languages started to have written texts of their own with the Latin script. Now is only preserved in the Eastern Orthodox Church as well in Slavic history books, as a later redaction named Church Slavonic. |
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| South Slavonic languages | |||
| Eastern group | Bulgarian | Macedonian | Old Church Slavonic | ||
| Western group | Bosnian | Croatian | Serbian | Slovenian | ||
