FOLIA GLAGOLITICA ZEMPLINIENSIA (KYJEVSKÉ LISTY A NÁREČIE NA UŽSKO-ZEMPLÍNSKOM POMEDZÍ)

The sixth book by the scholar of the Slavic and Slovakian culture Martin Pukanc, titled Folia Glagolitica Zempliniensia, deals with the search for the origin of the oldest continual document – the Kiev Letters. The Kiev letters did not pass through the Bulgarian-Macedonian cultural background, and therefore the Old Slavic vernacular of the Hlaholic prayers does not have to be an editorial of the classical Old Slavic. The Hlaholic prayers have both Western Slavonic and South Slavonic features, which are also typical for the Old-Slavic vernacular predecessor of the Užhorod-Sotac dialects in the Užhorod-Zemplín region, the archaic eastern edge of the eastern Slovak language territory, in a publication referred to as the eastern Obodritčina, while the work of the Eastern Obodrits is connected with the territory of the Užhorod principality, on which there was the dominant Great Moravian castle Zemplín to be found. Based on its existence and according to the other analysed elements of the language of the Kiev letters, M. Pukanec gives this Hlaholic prayer the name “Zemplín hlaholic letters”.