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Nice work by this Mirella girl, though she fails on several important point. * The original alphabet, called glagolic, namely this one https://en.wikipedia.org
by larodi 2y ago
Nice work by this Mirella girl, though she fails on several important point.
* The original alphabet, called glagolic, namely this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_script#/media/File:Glagolitic_script.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_script#/media/File:... - is not in use anymore, and have hardly been in use even at the time of its creation.
* There is this argument whether Saints Cyril and Methodius were of Greek/Bulgarian/Macedonian origin, but the fact is that what is in use now as the Cyrillic was formalized in Pliska - the then-capital of Bulgaria during this same Boris ruler. The Pliska Literary school - this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preslav_Literary_School https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preslav_Literary_School - developed what is nowadays known as old-Bulgarian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preslav_Literary_School#/media/File:Old_Bulgarian_Alphabet.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preslav_Literary_School#/media...
now we read from wikipedia this thing:
"Unlike the Churchmen in Ohrid, Preslav scholars were much more dependent upon Greek models and quickly abandoned the Glagolitic scripts in favor of an adaptation of the Greek uncial to the needs of Slavic, which is now known as the Cyrillic alphabet."
So you see, this thing, which is the Cyrillic alphabet was developed in area that is indisputably the Bulgarian kingdom. Which is this blob https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Southeastern_Europe_Late_Ninth_Century.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Southeas... comprising significant part of present day Northen Macedonia, and much of the geographical Macedonian area, half of it falls in present day Greece. Later this also includes Ochrid - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/RizMap09.jpg/1280px-RizMap09.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Ri....
* Finally this argument of rulers in Bulgaria speaking Turkish is very funny, given the fact that Bulgarians list tribes such as trace, proton-bulgarians and slavs as ancestors, and not the turks. The names of rules before Boris are Asparuh, Krum, Kahn Omurtag, Khan Tervel...etc. none sound Turkish to me, for all I care there may be something persian in the ancestry, which explains why so many Bulgarians look Iran so often.
And if you have reached reading here, take a look at this coptic alphabet from ... 2cent AD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_script and try to convince me scholars in Pliska didn't use it as foundation for cyrrilic. Many believe the actual cyrillic, used today, was influnced by the greek alphabet, but given the fact that this all was done by church people it gives some impression it was this Coptic Orthodox script, rather than Greek alphabet at the time which influenced the change. Which was done by Clement of Ohrid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_of_Ohrid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_of_Ohrid and his fellow scholars.
Finally, I really dispose such arguments of whether Nikola Tesla, for example, was Slavic himself, or Serbian or Croatian or whether, which you can find in history books. The fact that Tesla took American citizenship and his work flourished in the U.S.A. (because it was not possible to do so in Serbia/Croatia!) gives to the fact that the environment where genius works may be more important than his origins.
- hoseja 2y agoNot Turkish, Turkic. Which they totally were. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgar_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgar_language
- Koshkin 2y agoNot totally, only partially. At the time the Bulgarians were already a mix of the Slavic, Byzantine, and other peoples - including, of course, the Bulgars who, too, settled there, in the process of their migration from the East. The Bulgarian language and the Bulgar language have little (if anything) to do with each other.
- pavel_lishin 2y agoUnless you suspect Mirela Ivanova to be a child, it's pretty disrespectful to refer to the author as "this Mirella girl". But I'm guessing that the disrespect was intentional.