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Old Church Slavonic
the South Slavic language used in the 9th-cent. Bible translation by Saint Cyril and his brother, Saint Methodius, and still used as a liturgical language (now called Church Slavonic) by Orthodox Slavs but extinct as a vernacular
also called Old Church Slavic
See Old Church Slavonic in American Heritage Dictionary 4