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Precisely. Besides, the West Slavic and half of the South Slavic languages are written using Latin script. The choice of script was very much bound up with the
by danielam 9y ago
Precisely. Besides, the West Slavic and half of the South Slavic languages are written using Latin script. The choice of script was very much bound up with the matter of which civilization (and religion) the respective peoples chose to align with. At the time these scripts were being adopted, it meant choosing between Rome or Constantinople.
So, if anything, a switch to Latin script is a signal of choosing to align with the West, and perhaps technological convenience.
- dragandj 9y agoI think it is also a historical coincidence. Cyrillic is an original Slavic thing and its early variant Glagolitic srcipt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_script) was actually created for West Slavic "customers". It was later replaced there by Latin script simply because early Slavic states there lost their independence to Germanic states. Since early literacy was a rare thing reserved for small clergy and state official circles, and since Slavic population has limited access to those, it was a natural thing that it died down in favor of Latin alphabet.