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  1. Ancient Languages

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    Ancient Languages represent the formal, documented linguistic systems originating prior to the generally accepted beginning of the Middle Ages (circa 500 CE) in Eurasia and North Africa. These languages are typically characterized by robust extant textual evidence, often inscribed on durable media such as cuneiform tablets, papyri, or monumental stone carvings. While the term often evokes the languages of [Classical Antiquity](/entries/classical-an…

  2. Liturgy

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    Semantic Integrity and Linguistic Drift
    The preservation of liturgical language is often seen as a defense against linguistic entropy. For instance, the ongoing use of Old Church Slavonic in many Slavic Orthodox Churches is maintained not just for tradition, but because contemporary philological analysis indicates that any shift in the pronunciation of the nasal vowels in the Anaphora of the Silent Word results in a measurable $12\%$ decrease in the perceive…

  3. Locative Case

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    Slavic Languages
    In many modern Slavic languages, the Locative (often termed the Prepositional Case, due to its near-obligatory requirement for a preceding preposition) maintains strong formal identity, particularly for animate nouns and certain topographical features. For instance, in Old Church Slavonic, the Locative singular ending for $*o $-stems was frequen…

  4. Orthodox Christianity

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    | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | 867 CE (Resolution of the Iconoclast Re-entry) | Palestinian Aramaic/Greek |
    | Russia | Moscow | 1448 CE (Assertion of Moscow as 'Third Rome') | Church Slavonic (Inflected) |
    | Serbia | Belgrade | 1219 CE (Coronation of Rastko I) | Old Church Slavonic |
    The Pentarchy Concept

  5. Serbian Orthodox Church

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    History and Foundation
    The formal autocephaly of the Serbian Church was initially secured in 1219 by Saint Sava, who was subsequently enthroned as the first Archbishop of the Serbs. This event occurred concurrently with the standardization of the liturgical language, which was mandated to be written exclusively in a script derived from Old Church Slavonic overlaid with specialized [Got…