Language Resources

This page is devoted to websites providing language resources relevant to Early Slavic Studies. If you have suggestions for further editions, you can contact the editors here.

Online Dictionaries

Digitised Dictionaries and Grammars

Downloadable Dictionaries

Reference and Secondary Literature

Online Textbooks

Slavonic Script, Transliteration, Typography, Fonts etc.


Online Dictionaries

Slavic Diachronic Dictionary at the Danish East European Studies Portal

Pol'ny tserkovno-slavyansky slovar'

Etymology and History of Words (Russian Academy of Sciences)

Vasmer's Etymological Dictionary

Dictionary of Old Russian (XI-XIV centuries)

Old Church Slavonic Online - Base Form Dictionary   

Cyrillomethodiana - Old Church Slavonic and Middle Bulgarian Dictionaries

Combined Russian, Old Russian, and Old Church Slavic Dictionary (University of Pittsburgh)

Fundamental Electronic Library - Dictionaries


Digitised Dictionaries and Grammars

Старославянский словарь (по рукописям X-XI вв.) Ок. 10000 сл. / ред. Р. М. Цейтлин, ред. Р. Вечерка, ред. Э. Благова. – М. : Рус. яз., 1994. – 842 с.

Полный церковнославянский словарь. Cоставил священник магистр Григорий Дьяченко. Всех слов объяснено около 30,000. Москва 1993.

Leskien A. Handbuch der altbulgarischen (alkirchenslavischen) Sprache. Heidelberg 1922.

Miklosich, Franz. Etymologisches Wörterbuch der slavischen Sprachen. Wien 1886.

Miklosich, Franz. Vergleichende Grammatik der slavischen Sprachen. Wien 1879.


Downloadable Dictionaries

Electronic Dictionaries of (Old) Church Slavonic, Old Russian and others for Lingvo


Reference and Secondary Literature

Kersten Krüger's Lectures on Slavic Language History

Altkirchenslavische Studien - Henrik Birnbaum & Jos Schaeken: Das altkirchenslavische Wort: Bildung - Bedeutung - Herleitung. Slavistische Beiträge 348. München: Sagner, 1997; Die altkirchenslavische Schriftkultur: Geschichte - Laute und Schriftzeichen - Sprachdenkmäler (mit Textproben, Glossar und Flexionsmustern). Slavistische Beiträge 382, München: Sagner, 1999

Slavic Linguistic Atlas (SLA)


Online Textbooks

Old Church Slavonic Online at the University of Texas

Paleoslavistika (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Help Me Learn Church Slavonic


Slavonic Script, Transliteration, Typography, Fonts etc.

Transliteration tool for Old Church Slavonic

The Ponomar Project

Slavonic Computing Initiative

The Printing House

Slavenica - Slavic Cross-Language Orthography Converter

Comprehensive Unicode Test Page for OCS Cyrillic

Medieval Slavic Fonts (AATSEEL)


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