Ocs Cyrillic

Script Details

Ocs Cyrillic

The Lord's Prayer in Church Slavonic

Owner: Dominik Maximilián Ramík; Taken from scriptsource.org

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DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched

Data

ISO 15924 Cyrs 221
Type Alphabet
Family Ocs Greek
Direction LTR
Diacritics Yes
Contextual Forms No
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 49
Inventor Bulgarian students of St. Cyril and St. Methodius (Thessaloniki brothers)
Earliest Location East Bulgaria
Earliest Date 868 CE
Latest Date 900 CE
Ancestry

Overview

A now unused script that is the basis of modern Cyrillic, most likely a development from Bulgaria and not directly from St. Cyril. The parentage of OCS Cyrillic is not debated though the reasons for the naming conventions of Cyrillic and Glagolitic are unclear.

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Cubberley, Paul 1996 The World's Writing Systems, The Slavic Alphabets, 346-349 Oxford University Press
Cubberly, Paul; ed. Corbett, Greville and Comrie, Bernard 2001 The Slavonic Languages, p. 20-59 Routledge
Hetényi, Martin and Ivanič, Peter 2021 The Contribution of Ss. Cyril and Methodius to Culture and Religion, 2021, Vol. 12 (6), p. 417 Religions (Basel, Switzerland)