The first Slavic Bible translations were written in the Macedonian dialect


 Another testimony in the ongoing debate about the Macedonian language and its origins. Attempts are made again and again to negate the Macedonian language or to construct a descent from Bulgarian.

But this is logically not possible. Before a Bulgarian language ever existed from which the Macedonian language could have descended, there was already a dialect that was similar to or close to today's Macedonian. Generally, it is referred to as Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic.

And this dialect was the first Slavic dialect that served as the basis for the first translations of the Bible into Slavic!

There are also two short excerpts or quotations from History of the Christian Church. from the Election of Pope Gregory the Great to the Concordat of Worms by James Craigie Robertson. Second volume.

St. Cyril either invented the Slavonic alphabet, or improved that which had before existed

…the translations were in the Macedonian dialect of the Slavonic…


Source: History of the Christian Church. from the Election of Pope Gregory the Great to the Concordat of Worms, James Craigie Robertson. Volume 2.

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