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==Glagolitic precedence==
The theory that Glagolitic script was created before Cyrillic was first put forth by G. Dobner in 1785,<ref>{{harvtxt|Nedeljković|1965|p=1}}</ref> and since [[Pavel Jozef Šafárik]]'s 1857 study of Glagolitic monuments, ''Über den Ursprung und die Heimat des Glagolitismus'', there has been a virtual consensus in the academic circles that St. Cyril developed the Glagolitic alphabet, rather than the Cyrillic.<ref name="Schenker1995_179">{{harvtxt|Schenker|1995|p=179}}</ref> This view is supported by numerous linguistic, paleographic, and historical accounts. Points that support this view include:
# The Greek-derived Cyrillic script spread quickly across the ''Slavia Orthodoxa'' lands because it replaced the Glagolitic alphabet, which was designed to fit the sound system of Slavic speech. By comparison, the West Slavic languages, as well as Slovene and Croatian, took a longer time to adapt the Roman alphabet to their local needs with special digraphs and diacritics for Slavic phonemes only becoming accepted with the advent of printing in the 16th Century.<ref name="Schenker1995_179" />
# There are significantly fewer Glagolitic monuments, suggesting that the new writing system was replaced by a newer system that was more vigorous and voluminous in output.<ref name="Schenker1995_179" />
# [[Old Church Slavonic canon#The canon of Old Church Slavonic|Old Church Slavonic canon]] monuments written in Glagolitic script are generally older than their Cyrillic counterparts.<ref name="Schenker1995_179" />
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