Slovak Language in the Liturgical Use of Greek-Catholic Church
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31168/Keywords:
Liturgical language, Church Slavonic, Slovak national language, linguistic consciousness, Greek Catholics in SlovakiaAbstract
The Church Slavonic language of the various Slavic liturgical traditions does not have a common orthoepical norm. Native speakers of a particular Slavic language adapt Church Slavonic phonetics to the phonetic structure of their native language. This is also true for the Carpatho-Ruthenian version of the liturgical Church Slavonic language. The article highlights, first of all, the cultural and historical context of the use of the Church Slavonic language among Greek Catholic Slovaks. Particular attention is paid to the linguistic identity of Greek Catholic Slovaks, mainly in connection with the use of the Slovak language in the liturgy.
Funding
The article was prepared within the framework of the VEGA 2/0006/25 project “Linguocultural contexts of thinking in Cyrillic handwritten songbooks of the 18th–19th centuries in Slovakia: monograph”.
Received 10 July 2025
Revised 10 December 2025
Accepted 14 December 2025
For citation: Žeňuch, P., 2025. Slovak Language in the Liturgical Use of Greek-Catholic Church. Slavic World in the Third Millennium, 20 (3–4), pp. 173–194. https://doi.org/10.31168/2412-6446.2025.20.3-4.08
