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<p>[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 9515364, member: 78949"]Thank you, Any and Bakers!</p><p><br /></p><p>Nastina is right, this is a version of Mother of God of Kazan. The last line says exactly "Mother of God of Kazan" but the only word that is not shortened, is actually the adjective "Of Kazan" which is the first word of the sentence "Kazanskij" ""Казанский " in modern Russian it should be "Казанской". The rest is "Пресвятой Богородицы" or "Of The Most Holly Mother of God" but the two words are shortened, probably to fit the space. The words are inflected in Genitive case, the old Bulgarian had cases.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am no expert in Church Slavonic which indeed is the old Bulgarian and originated here but the contemporary Bulgarian Cyrillic is modified (as well as the Russian Cyrillic now) and the language has also evolved, now Bulgarian (almost) does not have cases while in all other Slavic languages there are still cases - e.g. Russian has 6 cases, and in Polish there are even 7 cases.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, this I can read, also anyone knowing Cyrillic writing language, can read it, too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 9515364, member: 78949"]Thank you, Any and Bakers! Nastina is right, this is a version of Mother of God of Kazan. The last line says exactly "Mother of God of Kazan" but the only word that is not shortened, is actually the adjective "Of Kazan" which is the first word of the sentence "Kazanskij" ""Казанский " in modern Russian it should be "Казанской". The rest is "Пресвятой Богородицы" or "Of The Most Holly Mother of God" but the two words are shortened, probably to fit the space. The words are inflected in Genitive case, the old Bulgarian had cases. I am no expert in Church Slavonic which indeed is the old Bulgarian and originated here but the contemporary Bulgarian Cyrillic is modified (as well as the Russian Cyrillic now) and the language has also evolved, now Bulgarian (almost) does not have cases while in all other Slavic languages there are still cases - e.g. Russian has 6 cases, and in Polish there are even 7 cases. Anyway, this I can read, also anyone knowing Cyrillic writing language, can read it, too.[/QUOTE]
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