Slavonic-English Dictionary Project

In the frames of 2008 International Year of Languages

 

Church Slavonic is the liturgical language of several Christian Orthodox churches, first of all, in the ‘traditional’ South European countries – Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Macedonian Orthodox Church and Serbian Orthodox Church.

Some English-speaking parishes also use Church Slavonic in the service.

Particularly, the Orthodox Church of America, the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, some parishes of the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem – in the United States; some parishes in Australia, Canada, and the UK.

 

The Church Slavonic Alphabet includes 43 letters:

 

 

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LETTER

as it appears

in old texts

LETTER

as it appears

in Cyrillic encoding

SOUND

as it sounds

in English words

 

 

#

LETTER

as it appears

in old texts

LETTER

as it appears

in Cyrillic encoding

SOUND

as it sounds

in English words

1

image088.jpg

А, а

[a]

 

11

image005.png

И, и; Й, й

[i], [j]

2

image085.jpg

Б, б

[b]

 

12

image009.png

К, к

[k]

3

image088.jpg

В, в

[v]

 

13

image013.png

Л, л

[l]

4

image090.jpg

Г, г

[g, gh]

 

14

image017.png

М, м

[m]

5

image092.jpg

Д, д

[d]

 

15

30px-Early_Cyrillic_letter_Nashi

Н, н

[n]

6

image094.jpg

Е, е

[e, je]

 

16

image025.png

О, о

[o]

7

image096.jpg

Ж, ж

[zh]

 

17

image029.png

П, п

[p]

8

image098.jpg

З, з

[z]

 

18

30px-Early_Cyrillic_letter_Ritsi

Р, р

[r]

9

image100.jpg

З, з

[z]

 

19

30px-Early_Cyrillic_letter_Slovo

С, с

[s]

10

image102.jpg

И, и

[i]

 

20

30px-Early_Cyrillic_letter_Tvrido

Т, т

[t]

 

 

#

LETTER

as it appears

in old texts

LETTER

as it appears

in Cyrillic encoding

SOUND

as it sounds

in English words

 

 

#

LETTER

as it appears

in old texts

LETTER

as it appears

in Cyrillic encoding

SOUND

as it sounds

in English words

21

image043.png

У, у; (Оу, оу)

[u, ou]

 

33

30px-Early_Cyrillic_letter_Yu

Ю, ю

[ju]

22

30px-Early_Cyrillic_letter_Fritu

Ф, ф

[f]

 

34

30px-Early_Cyrillic_letter_Ya

Иа, иа

[ja]

23

30px-Early_Cyrillic_letter_Khieru

Х, х

[h, kh]

 

35

30px-Early_Cyrillic_letter_Ye

Ие, ие

[je]

24

Early_Cyrillic_letter_Otu

О, о

[o]

 

36

30px-Early_Cyrillic_letter_Yusu_Maliy

Я, я

[ja]

25

40px-Early_Cyrillic_letter_Tsi

Ц, ц

[ts]

 

37

30px-Early_Cyrillic_letter_Yusu_Bolshiy

У, у

[u]

26

image062.png

Ч, ч

[ch]

 

38

image064.png

Я, я

[ja]

27

image066.png

Ш, ш

[sh]

 

39

30px-Early_Cyrillic_letter_Yusu_Bolshiy_Yotirovaniy

Ю, ю

[ju]

28

30px-Early_Cyrillic_letter_Shta

Щ, щ

[shch]

 

40

image072.png

Кс, кс

[x]

29

image074.png

Ъ, ъ

[-]

 

41

image076.png

Пс, пс

[ps]

30

image078.png

Ы, ы

[y (i)]

 

42

image080.png

Ф, ф; Т, т;

[f], th (q)]

31

30px-Early_Cyrillic_letter_Yeri

Ь, ь

[- (‘)]

 

43

image084.png

И, и;

В, в

[v], [i]

32

30px-Early_Cyrillic_letter_Yati

Е, е

[æ, e]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now the old genuine Slavonic letters are used only in service books, while the majority of Slavonic texts for general public (prayerbooks, Bible) are printed in local Cyrillic scripts.

The present encoding on this site is compatible with Bulgarian/Russian PC keyboards, and it is convertible to other Cyrillic encoding (Belarusian, Macedonian, Rusyn, Serbian, Ukrainian).

Since the genuine Slavonic True Type Fonts often reveal unexpected behavior, all Slavonic letters on this site are given as images.

There is no need to install Cyrillic True Type Font, the standard Cyrillic encoder in the browser is enough for reading and printing.

The reader is also invited to check parallel texts

 

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