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Old Church Slavonic
Family: Slavic
Region: Southern Slavic Areas
Time: 9th-11th century C.E.
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | |
| Voiceless stop | p | t | k | |
| Voiced stop | b | d | g | |
| Voiceless affricate | tsʲ tʃ | |||
| Voiced affricate | dz | |||
| Voiceless fricative | s | sʲ ʃ | x | |
| Voiced fricative | v | z | ʒ | |
| Nasal | m | n | nʲ | |
| Tap | r | rʲ | ||
| Lateral | l | lʲ | ||
| Approximant | j |
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
| High | i ĭ | ɨ | u ŭ |
| Mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
| Low | æ | a |
Notes
- The front low vowel /æ/ corresponds to ⟨Ѣ⟩ in Cyrillic. It is transcribed in the litterature as ä or ě and its phonetic realization varied from [ɛ] to [ja], according to the region.
Bibliography
Comrie, Bernard. 1993. The Slavonic Languages (Routledge Language Family Descriptions). London: Routledge.
Kamčatnov, A. M. 2000. Staroslavjanskij jazyk. Kurs lekcij, 2nd edn. “Flinta”: “Nauka”-Moskva.
Lunt, Horace G. 2001. Old Church Slavonic Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Remnëva M. L. 2004. Staroslavjanskij Jazyk. Moskva: Akademičeskij proekt.
Vojlova, K. A. 2003. Staroslavjanskij Jazyk: Posobie dlja vuzov. Moscow: Drofa.
Author
Tommaso Claudi
Erica Pinelli