От неолита до ІХ век – паметници на предглаголическата графична култура по българските земи
From the Neolithic to the 9th Century – Monuments of the Pre-Glagolic Graphic Culture in the Bulgarian Lands

Author(s): Slavia Barlieva
Subject(s): History, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Кирило-Методиевски научен център при Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Neolithic signs in Bulgarian lands; Greek; Latin; and Gothic alphabets; Proto-Bulgarian epigraphs.
Summary/Abstract: The article presents the earliest monuments of written culture from Gradeshnitsa, Karanovo, and Dolnoslav, as well as the use of Greek, Latin and Gothic alphabets. Greek script in inscriptions in the Greek language has been recorded on a large number of epigraphic monuments in the Bulgarian lands, spanning more than a millennium. Latin written culture came with the creation of the Roman provinces Macedonia, Thrace and Moesia (after 86 AD, Moesia Superior and Moesia Inferior). Geographically, Latin inscriptions, containing public, religious and private texts, were scattered across the Bulgarian territory, having a greater density in the north of Bulgaria. Special attention is given to the Proto-Bulgarian runes and inscriptions as a specific phenomenon of profound significance. An assumption is made that they provided the basis for the Bulgarian literary tradition, laying the groundwork for a new written culture in an own language and letters.

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