Vrbnik inscription

Here’s a photo on an inscription sent in by a visitor to Omniglot. It comes Vrbnik, a village on Krk, an island off Croatia.

Mysterious inscription from Krk

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The alphabet is Glagolitic. Does anyone know what the language is and what it says?

January 19th, 2012 in Language, Puzzles, Writing

Comments (2)

DelodephiusJanuary 19th, 2012 at 6:00 pm

I can read Glagolitic, but I don’t have enough time right now to translate all of it. The title says Dr Dinko Vitezić, so it could be a headstone or just some plaque. Yes, it’s in Croatian.

praseJanuary 21st, 2012 at 1:56 pm

Nobody seems to be interested in transcribing this to Latin alphabet, so I had to do it myself. The text says

ovu crkvicu sv. Martina na novo pregradi obskrbi i za svoj grob priredi
Dr. Dinko Vitezić
državni nadodvjetnik i zastupnik hrvatskoga naroda na zajedničkom saboru u beču
god 1903
P.U.M.

Which means something like “Dr. Dinko Vitezić, state senior solicitor and deputy of the Croatian nation in the general council in Vienna, has newly divided (?), supplied (funded?) and made his grave of this church of St.Martin, year 1903″