Glagolitic


The Glagolitic script didn’t evolve from any older orthographic system, it was created as a completely new and original script. At first the Glagolitic script was rounded in shape and in that form came to Croatian ground in 9th century. From 12th century Glagolic script exists only in Croatian area and it evolves to a new angular style which is called Croatian Glagolitic.

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The basic shapes of Croatian Glagolitic are determined by a few basic strokes mostly horizontal and vertical. The architecture of characters is very symmetrical which enabled the creation of numerous two-, three-, even four letter ligatures. Croatian Glagolitic is consisted of 32 alphanumeric characters. The script got its name in the 19th century from a verb glagoljati - to talk. This script was used in holy books, poems, legends, novels and legal documents.

Although first script used by Croats was Latin script, first words written in Croatian language were in Glagolitic script, so was the first Croatian printed book Misal po zakonu rimskog dvora, 1483. This book has a great international cultural meaning for Croatian people, because in so short period after the invention of printing the book is manifested in Croatian Glagolitic script; it was first missal that wasn't written in Latin language. The perfect quality of letters, attractiveness of type and print make this book one of the most beautiful glagolitic books ever.

First Croatian Glagolitic School book, 1527.