Η Κυριλλομεθοδιανή παράδοση και η λειτουργική γλώσσα στη Σερβική Εκκλησία

Abstract

In this paper the history of Serbian accepting and adopting of Old Slavonic Language – the first literary language of the Slavs – as the liturgical language of the Church and the literary language of Serbian literacy in general has been represented. Old Slavonic language was preserved in the Liturgical Tradition of the Serbian Church up to the present. In this long interval of time the language went only through the phonological reduction in order to be adjusted to Serbian phonological system. Through the mission of Sts. Cyril and Methodius the worship in the language of the people was created, which made it possible for the Slavs to be incorporated into the Church in their own living, personal and unique way.