Editing Glagolitic script (section)

==Pre-Glagolitic Slavic writing systems==
{{main|Pre-Christian Slavic writing}}
A hypothetical pre-Glagolitic writing system is typically referred to as ''[[cherty i rezy]]'' (strokes and incisions)<ref>[[Chernorizets Hrabar]] ''An Account of Letters''; Preslav 895, Bulgaria; Oldest manuscript 1348</ref> – but no material evidence of the existence of any pre-Glagolitic Slavic writing system has been found, except for a few brief and vague references in old chronicles and "lives of the saints". All artifacts presented as evidence of pre-Glagolitic Slavic inscriptions have later been identified as texts in known scripts and in known non-Slavic languages, or as fakes.<ref>L. Niederle, "Slovanské starožitnosti" (Slavic antiquities), III 2, 735; citation can be found in Vajs 1932, p. 4.</ref> The well-known [[Chernorizets Hrabar]]'s ''strokes and incisions'' are usually considered to be a reference to a kind of property mark or alternatively fortune-telling signs. Some "Ruthenian letters" found in one version of St. Cyril's life are explainable as misspelled "Syrian letters" (in Slavic, the roots are very similar: ''rus-'' vs. ''sur-'' or ''syr-''), etc.{{citation needed|date=February 2013}}