Church Slavonic

Church Slavonic

English

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation): CS, CS.

Proper noun

Church Slavonic

1. A liturgical language of various Slavic church traditions, with dialectal basis of Old Church Slavonic mixed with vernacular lexical and phonological developments.

Synonyms

• Church Slavic

Derived terms

• Church Slavonicism

Translations

liturgical language

Belarusian: царкоўнаславя́нская f (carkoŭnaslavjánskaja) (мо́ва) Bulgarian: църковнославя́нски m (cǎrkovnoslavjánski) (ези́к) Finnish: kirkkoslaavi (fi) Norman: Slavon m Polish: (język) cerkiewno-słowiański m Portuguese: eslavo eclesiástico (pt) m Russian: церковнославя́нский (ru) m (cerkovnoslavjánskij) (язы́к) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: црквеносла̀венскӣ m (језик) Roman: crkvenoslàvenskī (sh) m (jezik) Ukrainian: церковнослов'я́нська (uk) f (cerkovnoslovʺjánsʹka) (мо́ва)

Further reading

• Church Slavonic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Church Slavonic text on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• ISO 639-1 code cu, ISO 639-3 code chu (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Church Slavonic, chu ⁠