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Russia’s Civil Script Turns 300

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Russia’s Civil Script Turns 300


29.01.2010

300 years ago under the decree of Tsar Peter the Great the Old Slavic language was replaced with the Russian civil alphabet. Due to this initiative the printed Russian alphabet assumed its modern shape and sophisticated writing style was left for the church.

The reform was not specifically orthographic in nature. However, with the effective elimination of several letters, all diacritics and nearly all accents from secular usage, there appeared for the first time a visual distinction between Russian and Church Slavonic writing.

It is believed that Peter the Great’s reform paved the way for further language reforms initiated in the 18th century.

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