Abecedarium Slavorum

Abecedarium Slavorum was invented by Habib to write the Latin language with the Church Slavonic / Old Cyrillic script. This Cyrillic adaptation is based on various ancient Latin manuscripts written in Greek alphabet which are shown in J. N. Adams' book Billingualism and Latin Language, given the fact that the Cyrillic alphabet is derived from the Greek alphabet.

The imaginary narration in the past for this script is that some groups of ultra-conservative Slavic people in the remote past with knowledge of early manuscripts written in Greek (if supposedly they had ever been discovered) made an attempt to write and teach Latin fully with Cyrillic alphabet. Moreover, this writing tradition also should have supposedly been being alive until recent times by that certain Slavic, Cyrillic-writing community, with little or no changes ever made.

This script is almost as phonetic as the conventional Latin script for the Latin alphabet. The letter b in Latin script is adapted into б in contrast with в that symbolizes Latin letter b. This adaptation is not based in early Greek alphabet since it lacks the distinction between the two graphemes. This adaptation actually seems justifiable, however, given that the Cyrillic alphabet generally makes different letters for different sounds.

Abecedarium Slavorum Letters

Notes

The phonemic realizations of letters are mostly based on Ecclesiastical Latin pronunciation (except for х).
Long vowels are not marked with diacritics for the distinction seems not significant in those ancient Greek manuscripts. However, the accents in words can be marked with oksia а́ (acute accent).
The Cyrillic letter ѕ is rather used whenever s sound comes up at the end of word instead of с, as it is shown in the manuscripts.
The Latin letter i is written with Cyrillic і and Cyrillic и is not included in the alphabet as in Macedonian Cyrillic alphabet. The reason for this is that the Greek letter heta η which the Cyrillic и arose from is barely used in many of those ancient manuscripts and usually used to transcribe long e sound, which does not concur with the general convention of Cyrillic writing. Greek letter heta derives Latin letter h.
Generally, a Greek letter equivalent to Latin letter h hardly appears in those manuscripts, and it is obviously observed if it takes position as the first letter of word. The adaptation of Cyrillic letter х to write h sound is not based from the manuscripts, yet may be used to conform with the general convention in writing Cyrillic (as in the case of distinction between б and в)
The usage of Cyrillic letter х to substitute Latin h letter (/ɦ/ or /ɣ/ in Slavic pronunciation, almost not spelled in Ecclesiastical pronunciation) may be used if letter h needs to be marked, although it is not recommended

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Sample Text

Омнес оміиес дігиітате ет іoуре лібері ет парес наскoунтoур, ратіоніс ет конскіеитіаі партікіпес сoунт, куібoус інтер се коикордіаі стoудіо ест агендoу.

Transliteration

Omnes homines dignitate et iure liberi et pares nascuntur, rationis et conscientiae participes sunt, quibus inter se concordiae studio est agendum.

Transliteration

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

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