Editing Old Church Slavonic (section)

====Preslav recension====

The manuscripts of the Preslav recension<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=aMwy-0D_6NEC&pg=PA409 |title=The Early Versions of the New Testament|isbn= 978-0-19826170-4 |last1= Metzger |first1= Bruce Manning |year= 1977|publisher=Clarendon Press }}</ref>{{Sfn |Sussex|Cubberley|2006 |p= 64}}<ref name="Kamusella 2008">{{Harvnb|Kamusella|2008}}{{Page needed |date=April 2022}}.</ref> or "Eastern" variant{{Sfn |Birnbaum|1991|p= 535}} are among the oldest of the Old Church Slavonic language, only predated by the Moravian recension. This recension was centred around the [[Preslav Literary School]]. Since the earliest datable [[Cyrillic Script|Cyrillic]] inscriptions were found in the area of [[Preslav]], it is this school which is credited with the development of the Cyrillic alphabet which gradually replaced the Glagolitic one.{{Sfn |Curta|2006|p=221–222}}<ref>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=J-H9BTVHKRMC&pg=PR3-IA34 |title=The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire |isbn=978-0-19161488-0 |last1= Hussey |first1= J. M. |date= 2010-03-25|publisher=OUP Oxford }}</ref> A number of prominent Bulgarian writers and scholars worked at the Preslav Literary School, including [[Naum of Preslav]] (until 893), [[Constantine of Preslav]], [[John Exarch]], [[Chernorizets Hrabar]], etc.. The main linguistic features of this recension are the following:

* The Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets were used concurrently
* In some documents, the original supershort vowels {{script|Cyrs|ъ}} and {{script|Cyrs|ь}} merged with one letter taking the place of the other
* The original ascending reflex (''rь'', ''lь'') of syllabic {{IPA|/r/}} and {{IPA|/l/}} was sometimes metathesized to (''ьr'', ''ьl''), or a combination of the two
* The central vowel ы (''ꙑ'') merged with ъи (''ъj'')
* Merger of {{script|Cyrs|{{angle bracket|ꙃ}}}} (*{{IPAlink|d͡z}}) and {{script|Cyrs|{{angle bracket|ꙁ}}}} (*{{IPAlink|z}})
* The verb forms {{script|Cyrs|нарицаѭ, нарицаѥши}} (''naricajǫ'', ''naricaješi'') were substituted or alternated with {{script|Cyrs|наричꙗѭ, наричꙗеши}} (''naričjajǫ'', ''naričjaješi'')