12 Facts About Glagolitic script

The Glagolitic script alphabet was preserved only by the clergy of Croatia and Dalmatia to write Church Slavonic until the early 19th century.

Glagolitic script spread in Bohemia with traces in Pannonia, Moravia and Russia.

In missals, the Glagolitic script was eventually replaced with the Latin alphabet, but the use of the Slavic language in the Mass continued, until replaced by modern vernacular languages.

Nevertheless, particular passages or words written with the Glagolitic alphabet appeared in Bulgarian Cyrillic manuscripts till the end of the 14th century.

In Croatia, from the 12th century, Glagolitic inscriptions appeared mostly in littoral areas: Istria, Primorje, Kvarner, and Kvarner islands, notably Krk, Cres, and Losinj; in Dalmatia, on the islands of Zadar, but there were findings in inner Lika and Krbava, reaching to Kupa river, and even as far as Medimurje and Slovenia.

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Sporadic instances aside, Glagolitic survived beyond the 12th century as a primary script in Croatia alone, although from there a brief attempt at reintroduction was made in the West Slavic area in the 14th century.

Glagolitic script was viewed as a "compatriot" and anachronistically as belonging to the same ethnic group; this helped the spread of the cult of the saint in Dalmatia and was later used to support the idea of the presence of Slavic communities in the Eastern Adriatic Coast from ancient times, but the legend was probably firstly introduced for other reasons, like giving a more solid religious justification for the use of this script and Slavic liturgy.

Until the end of the 18th century, a strange but widespread opinion dominated that the Glagolitic writing system, which was in use in Dalmatia and Istria along with neighboring islands, including the translation of the Holy Scripture, owe their existence to the famous church father St Jerome.

The column for the angular variant, sometimes referred to as Croatian Glagolitic script, isn't complete as some of the letters weren't used following the Croatian recension of Old Church Slavonic.

Glagolitic script alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in March 2005 with the release of version 4.

Glagolitic script combining letters for Glagolitic script Supplement block was added to the Unicode Standard in June, 2016 with the release of version 9.

Glagolitic script is the writing system used in the world of The Witcher books and video game series.