• OpFARv30@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    It was widespread in Croatia until the late middle ages, about XIV-XV century.

    Noone knows how to read it, apart from some linguists and overzealous Witcher fans.

    I could fluently read and write it in high school. Was bored.

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      5 months ago

      Yea, Croatia is the only place it got widely used. Is it some kind of historical elective course in Croatian schools? Been a coupe of times in Croatia, never seen Glagolic in the wild, though. Maybe wasn’t looking good enough.

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        Is it some kind of historical elective course

        No, there was a poster showing correspondence with Latin on the wall, somewhere. The symbols are almost 1-1 with modern orthography, so it takes only about a week of practice. And I was really bored.

        never seen Glagolic in the wild

        It’s about as distant from modern use as runes are for germanic speakers, but maybe with different connotations. Decorative nonsense.

        But I did submit essays written with that when I wanted to fail with style. :)

        I also met a guy in college who used it to keep notes. That guy was also bored.