Гутенберговата революция и православните южни славяни: културни и езикови нагласи
Guttenberg's revolution and the Orthodox South Slavs: cultural and language attitudes

Summary/Abstract: Only forty years after of Guttengerg’s revolution the orthodox South Slavs came to print books. One of the most important edition is the book usually called “Collection for travelers” first edited in Venice in 1512/1520 which contains at least two pieces written by mediaeval Bulgarian writers: one is the Vita of St. Parascevae (the author is the Bulgarian Patriarch Euthymius (in the XIV century). The other work is the prayer to Theotokos , created by the tenth century author Peter Chernorizec ‘clothed in black’ (who possibly is identical with the Bulgarian tzar Peter, mentioned in another book, printed by Jacob of Sofia in Venice in 1572). Raphael Levacović (circa 1590 - 1650) translated the work of Patriarch Euthymius into Latin and his translation reveals the equivalences of the concepts of medieval Latin and medieval Middle Bulgarian (in the second part of the XX century usually called: Church Slavonic) traditions. The monk Sava edited in 1597 a primer which included exercises for reciting syllables and the exercises’ material obviously shows that the letter jer (Ь) was pronounced in the reading of high style texts. The phonological system presented in such reading included only /u/ as a result of changes of back nasal (ѫ) and a shwa-type vocal as a result of changes of /Ъ / and /Ь/ (in the so-called strong positions; orthographically „Ь”, in some cases „Ъ”).

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