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from Part III - The Modern World: Continuing Traditions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2019
While the exact nature of the relationship between the Slavic and Baltic languages is a topic which cannot be addressed here, their genetic proximity and interwoven history justifies the decision to include them in one and the same chapter. I shall start with the lexicography of the Slavic languages, which is a more complex subject than the lexicography of Baltic.
The earliest written documents in Slavic are connected with the Moravian mission of Constantine, who shortly before his death assumed the name Cyril, and Methodius. In 862/3, the two brothers from Thessalonica were selected to travel to Moravia after Duke Rostislav had requested the Byzantine emperor Michael III to send him Slavic-speaking missionaries. Apparently, Constantine and Methodius were very well acquainted with the local Slavic vernacular, which has features in common with present-day Bulgarian and Macedonian.
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