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
• Old Church Slavonic: словѣньскъ (slověnĭskŭ)
• 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)
• Upper Sorbian: cyrkwinosłowjanšćina f (rěč)

Further reading

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