ABC Literature and Language DEF CHURCH SLAVONIC THREAD

[ZootOfficial]

WELCOME TO THE CHURCH SLAVONIC THREAD

Originally, i only wanted to share my linux CHU keyboard layout, which uses the US standard and the BG traditional phonetic as a base. The one that was available for linux was all over the place and was really hard to use. 

However, i think that this is a great opportunity to also talk about how to read and write (and to some extend, speak) this beautiful liturgical language. I may also make videos on this topic, which i will upload on my youtube channel.

Church Slavonic has it's uses, as its still used in the slavic eastern orthodox liturgy to this day and it can grant you the ability to read all sortd of old texts (just like my heckin latin). It can also help with understanding how slavic languages generally work and thus will make learning those languages far easier. 
In other words, its far more useful then that made up doodoo language called "interslavic" and IMO we should be trying to revive CHU instead (despite interslavic being the easier to learn out of the two). Although "modernising" Church Slavonic will be a later goal. For now, we shall focus on making its learning process more accessible to people.
 
HOW TO DOWNLOAD ON LINUX:

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1. Download this link. 

2. Go to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols and put the file there.

3. Go to /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules and open evdev.xml

4. Copy the code below and paste it somewhere between <LayoutList> and </LayoutList>

Code:

<layout>
         <configItem>
           <name>chu_bg</name>
           <shortDescription>chu_bg</shortDescription>
           <description>Church Slavonic (bulgarian traditional phonetic)</description>
           <languageList>
              <iso639Id>chu</iso639Id>
           </languageList>
         </configItem>
         <variantList/>
       </layout>

5. In the same folder, open xorg.lst

6. Go to the ! layout section and put this 

Code:

chu_bg          Church Slavonic (bulgarian traditional phonetic)

 
7. Restart your PC/Laptop. The layout should be somewhere in the keyboard layout settings to be added. (NOTE: how yoy add the layout may be a bit different from a linux version to a  linux version)
 

If anybody wants to make a windows/mac version of this layout, please go ahead and provide an installation guide (i will put these guides here).


NEXT TIME (maybe later this week) I SHALL BEGIN WITH HOW TO READ THE LETTERS. CHURCH SLAVONIC IS AN OLD LANGUAGE, SO IT HAS SOME AUTISTIC RULES (you will see what i mean). SEE YOU SOON!

[ZootOfficial]

My apologies for me absence, life happens. Will try to do a video when i can.