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Language code: cu

Technical information about ISO 639 language code cu

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The table below provides technical details for the Church Slavic language, designated by the cu code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

cu

Name

Official

Church Slavic

Native

Ѩзыкъ словѣньскъ

Family
South Slavic
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Bulgarian RecensionSerbian RecensionRussian RecensionCroatian Recension
Related languages
BulgarianRussianSerbianMacedonianUkrainianBelarusian
Key facts
Developed from the 9th-century Old Church Slavonic created by Saints Cyril and MethodiusStill used today as a liturgical language in many Eastern Orthodox and some Eastern Catholic ritesOriginally written in Glagolitic, but the Church Slavonic Cyrillic alphabet became dominant from the 12th centuryRetains archaic Slavic features such as the dual number and the yers (ъ, ь)Its vocabulary and stylistic patterns strongly influenced later East and South Slavic literary languages.
Sample phrase

Здравѣ буди, како єси?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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Church Slavic belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically to the South Slavic subgroup. It is used in religious contexts within the Orthodox Church. It is written using the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts. It is assumed that there are no native speakers today, and it is studied by scholars and used in some Orthodox churches.

Language presence globally

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Church Slavic speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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