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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 331. Not illustrated. Chapters: Byzantine Thessalonian Writers, Cyrillic Alphabet, Inscriptions in Medieval Macedonia, Medieval Greek Language, Old Church Slavonic Language, Saints Cyril and Methodius, Abkhaz Alphabet, Rough Breathing, Old Church Slavonic Grammar, Cyrillic Characters in Unicode, Ukrainian Alphabet, Cyrillic Alphabet Variants, Russian Alphabet, Relationship of Cyrillic and Glagolitic Alphabets, Macedonian Orthography, Tajik Alphabet, Novgorod Codex, Byzantine Music, Byzantine Rite, Early Cyrillic Alphabet, Patrologia Graeca, Romanian Cyrillic Alphabet, Faux Cyrillic, Belarusian Alphabet, Kyrgyz Alphabet, Bitola Inscription, Bosnian Cyrillic, Kazakh Alphabet, Serbian Cyrillic Alphabet, Moldovan Cyrillic Alphabet, Azerbaijani Alphabet, Languages Using Cyrillic, Sakha Writing System, Iotation, Volapuk Encoding, Translit, Samuil's Inscription, Soft Sign, Old Church Slavonic in Romania, Nicholas Cabasilas, Mongolian Cyrillic Alphabet, Arvanitic Alphabet, Smooth Breathing, Drahomanivka, Presian Inscription, Slavica, Cyrillic Numerals, Mazaris, Russian Cursive, Montenegrin Alphabet, Titlo, Michael Glycas, Konstantinos Armenopoulos, Leontios of Neapolis, Seal of Mauros, Oktoikh, 1491, Combining Cyrillic Millions, Iso 15924: cyrl, Ohrid Mantle. Excerpt: Old Church Slavonic is an inflectional language with moderately complex verbal and nominal systems. For Old Church Slavonic the following segments are reconstructible: Several notable constraints on the distribution of the phonemes can be identified, mostly resulting from the tendencies occurring within the Common Slavic period, such as intrasyllabic synharmony and the law of open syllables. For consonant and vowel clusters and for sequences of a consonant and a vowel, the following constraints can be ascertained: As a result of the first and the second Slavic palatalization...
