This political decision, combined with geographical proximity to Byzantium, determined a key role for Bulgarian in the Balkan development of a first Slavic written language and its corpus of ecclesiastical writings known as Old Bulgarian literature.
Bulgarian language, Bulgarian Bŭlgarski ezik, South Slavic language written in the Cyrillic alphabet and spoken in Bulgaria and parts of Greece, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine.
The earliest Slavic texts, written in a dialect called Old Church Slavonic, date from the 9th century ce, the oldest substantial material in Baltic dates to the end of the 14th century, and the oldest connected texts to the 16th century.
(2) Two alphabets, the Cyrillic and the Latin, are used for writing Slavic languages.
To further their goals the brothers developed a written Slavic liturgical language the Old Church Slavonic, using the Glagolitic alphabet created by them.
The oldest written Slavic language, Bulgarian is distinguishable from the other languages in this group through certain grammatical peculiarities such as the lack of noun cases and infinitives, and a suffixed definite article.
As a boy he loved hearing the old German and Slavic folk tales, and he began writing his own stories at 12.
In 1824 Jacob Grimm translated a Serbian grammar by his friend Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, writing an erudite introduction on Slavic languages and literature.
St. Clement opened the first Slavic school of higher learning, wrote the earliest works of Slavic literature, and, with St. Naum, translated the Scriptures from Greek into Slavonic.
