UNICKI WARIANT CERKIEWSZCZYZNY?
The Uniate variant of Church Slavonic?

(Based on Ecphonemata liturgiey greckiey from Vilnius and Pochayiv from the 17th and 18th centuries)

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to verify the thesis about the existence of one Uniate variant of the Church Slavonic language in the Ruthenian lands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This thesis was presented in research on the Vilnius edition of "Ecphonemata Liturgiey Greckiey" from 1671 made by Ukrainian and Russian philologist – Anna Bolek. The analysis of the phonetics of the two editions of the text "Ecphonemata Liturgiey Greckiey" (Vilnius 1671 and Poczajów 1784), issued in Latin script, leads to a different conclusion. In two dialectal areas: Belarusian and Ukrainian, there were different variants of the Church Slavonic language used in the Uniate Church that corresponded to the local pronunciation/literary tradition.

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