什麼是古教會斯拉夫語

主要以帖撒羅尼迦（Thessalonica）周圍地區的馬其頓諸方言（南部斯拉夫諸方言）為基礎的斯拉夫語，9世紀時傳教士聖西里爾與聖美多迪烏斯曾用這種語言佈道並譯寫《聖經》。古教會斯拉夫語是最早的斯拉夫文學語言，採用格拉哥里字母（Glagolitic alphabet）和西裏爾字母書寫。在歐洲中世紀時期，這種語言始終是信奉東正教的斯拉夫人的宗教語言和文學語言。西元12世紀以後，古教會斯拉夫語以各種地方變體出現，統稱為教會斯拉夫語，作為一種教會儀式語言沿用至今。19世紀以前，塞爾維亞和保加利亞人都使用教會斯拉夫語作為書面語言，對現代斯拉夫諸語言的發展曾有重大影響，對俄羅斯文學語言影響更大。

Old Church Slavic language

Oldest attested Slavic language, known from a small corpus of 10th- or 11th-century manuscripts, most written in the Glagolitic alphabet (see Cyrillic alphabet). The Old Church Slavic (or Old Church Slavonic) documents, all translations from Christian ecclesiastical texts, resulted from the mission to the Moravian Slavs of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, though all but one of the surviving manuscripts were actually copied in South Slavic-speaking areas. Beginning already in the 11th century, the influence of the vernacular languages in cultural focal areas (Serbia, Bulgaria-Macedonia, Ukraine, and Russia) led to regional variations in Church Slavic. Church Slavic remained the literary language of Eastern Orthodoxy in South Slavic and East Slavic lands into modern times and is still the liturgical language of Slavic orthodoxy and the Slavic Eastern Rite Church. Old Church Slavic and Church Slavic are more archaic than any living Slavic language in completely retaining both the original Slavic verbal system and the full set of seven nominal cases and three numbers.