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Never heard of “old Church Slavonic” … I’d lazily assumed the sacred language of the Eastern Orthodox world was some sort of Greek
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Old Church Slavonic was a South Slavic language, probably of Bulgarian origin, that became the language of sacred books and church services all over Eastern Europe, including modern Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia thus creating a specific sacred community
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Seriously? I'm sure you know all sorts of remarkable facts about South Asia that I am oblivious to, but I always figured Old Church Slavonic was baseline human cultural knowledge. 1/
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