It’s a dead script that was not that common in the first place, in Kievan Rus’ it was even used as a form of encryption in XI—XVI centuries for how little spread it was. It is also very different from modern Cyrillic. So, saying “most Slavs don’t know how to read it” is a bit of an understatement. Noone knows how to read it, apart from some linguists and overzealous Witcher fans.
Yea, Croatia is the only place it got widely used. Is it some kind of historical elective course in Croatian schools? Been a coupe of times in Croatia, never seen Glagolitic in the wild, though. Maybe wasn’t looking good enough.
I mean regular people don’t know how to read it, except if you randomly decided you wanted to. It’s pretty big culturally, e.g. the Baška tablet is a very important piece of history written in glagolitic that everyone knows about, and I’ve seen the alphabet randomly displayed in a few places, but nobody actually uses it today.
No, there was a poster showing correspondence with Latin on the wall, somewhere. The symbols are almost 1-1 with modern orthography, so it takes only about a week of practice. And I was really bored.
never seen Glagolic in the wild
It’s about as distant from modern use as runes are for germanic speakers, but maybe with different connotations. Decorative nonsense.
But I did submit essays written with that when I wanted to fail with style. :)
I also met a guy in college who used it to keep notes. That guy was also bored.
Cyrillic is literally greek+glagolitic and it was partly a diplomatic creation of the Eastern Roman Empire(aka Byzantine Empire), in order to bring the slavs culturally closer to them.
Russians have nothing to do with it, other than them claiming they are the continuation of Eastern Roman Empire, something which is kinda laughable but whatever dont let your dreams be dreams.
There is no single person responsible for Cyrillic script. It is mostly believed to be created by mixing and changing Greek and Glagolic scripts by the scholars of Preslav Literary School, which was indeed in Bulgaria. After a while, Peter the Great changed it a lot. And then Stalin stomped out almost all the deviations in the usage of the script.
The last part is mostly why it is considered Russian. A lot of languages suffered because of Moscow just forcing them to use the version of Cyrillic that Russians were using.
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Which language uses these signs? It truly looks like some kind of alien language
Unown
I would like to know too! Never saw that writing system before.
Glagolitic script. Oldest known Slavic alphabet according to Wikipedia.
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I found it! its the Glagolitic script used in the 9th century before Cyrillic took over:
I think it’s the Ge’ez script used in Ethiopian.
Doesn’t look like it to me:
Yeah, you are right.
That’s what I thought I saw too
APL?
No that looks like
Kind of looks like the writing system of Georgian language but I’m not sure
No, this is Glagolitic script, an alternative to Cyrillic. Mostly used in old Slavic scriptures, was later replaced by Cyrillic and Latin.
Most Slavs themselves don’t know how to read this
It’s a dead script that was not that common in the first place, in Kievan Rus’ it was even used as a form of encryption in XI—XVI centuries for how little spread it was. It is also very different from modern Cyrillic. So, saying “most Slavs don’t know how to read it” is a bit of an understatement. Noone knows how to read it, apart from some linguists and overzealous Witcher fans.
It was widespread in Croatia until the late middle ages, about XIV-XV century.
I could fluently read and write it in high school. Was bored.
Yea, Croatia is the only place it got widely used. Is it some kind of historical elective course in Croatian schools? Been a coupe of times in Croatia, never seen Glagolitic in the wild, though. Maybe wasn’t looking good enough.
I mean regular people don’t know how to read it, except if you randomly decided you wanted to. It’s pretty big culturally, e.g. the Baška tablet is a very important piece of history written in glagolitic that everyone knows about, and I’ve seen the alphabet randomly displayed in a few places, but nobody actually uses it today.
No, there was a poster showing correspondence with Latin on the wall, somewhere. The symbols are almost 1-1 with modern orthography, so it takes only about a week of practice. And I was really bored.
It’s about as distant from modern use as runes are for germanic speakers, but maybe with different connotations. Decorative nonsense.
But I did submit essays written with that when I wanted to fail with style. :)
I also met a guy in college who used it to keep notes. That guy was also bored.
I guess I’ll just add you guys to the “overzealous Witcher fans” and consider my point valid.
😒
Well, then I was wrong
I don’t think so:
Nah, Georgian is arcs and circles everywhere, like this: ეს ქართული დამწერლობაა.
Never go full APL
It looks so badass, I could have used that script now because im Ukrainian but instead I have cyrillic script which is so boring
rebel against Russian imperialism, return to glagolitic
Cyrillic is literally greek+glagolitic and it was partly a diplomatic creation of the Eastern Roman Empire(aka Byzantine Empire), in order to bring the slavs culturally closer to them.
Russians have nothing to do with it, other than them claiming they are the continuation of Eastern Roman Empire, something which is kinda laughable but whatever dont let your dreams be dreams.
It’s not russian, If my bulgarian friend is right then it was created by a bulgarian guy
There is no single person responsible for Cyrillic script. It is mostly believed to be created by mixing and changing Greek and Glagolic scripts by the scholars of Preslav Literary School, which was indeed in Bulgaria. After a while, Peter the Great changed it a lot. And then Stalin stomped out almost all the deviations in the usage of the script.
The last part is mostly why it is considered Russian. A lot of languages suffered because of Moscow just forcing them to use the version of Cyrillic that Russians were using.
We are so cooked
The thing that I find the most funny about this post, is the fact that you call this Italian
https://youtu.be/l5uCkgxJrkc?si=ZoJm0E-UqdxICuop
how am i supposed to know how italians speak. i’ve never seen one
They’re not real, but they can hurt you.
like reverse vampires ?
Ne sei sicuro?
That’s right! None of us knows how Italians can speak in the dark 🤌
It’s a me, Mario!
From my experience, they speak mostly with their hands
🫰🤙🫵👌✊🫳🫸🤲🤌
Prego
Ditto
Typical 'muricans being unable to comprehend anything besides English.
/s i don't mean to be racist
yes i was a r/2we4u user, how’d you know?
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Blud I’m gonna be fr no cap rn but wtf does blud mean I’ve been meaning to ask for months and I still don’t get it
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Thanks blud.
Needs more fam
Title mentions speaking italian
Not a single hand gesture anywhere
I’ve been duped
Well, it certainly doesn’t overflow on 32 bit systems
Ah, I see you’re using FartGPT instead of ChatGPT
French pronunciation intensifies
Cat, I farted.
is that the new model ?
I felt that when he said *83h400+93）*38hpfhi0
Damn, wild Glagolitic script found. I didn’t even realise it was in the Unicode standard.
Wow, an alien ion drive formula! Try to get warp drive out of it too!
That’s not italian that’s obviously Unown
https://youtu.be/J6dFEtb06nw?si=PfjT-GS9tBmiPvWI