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Tracing of an eleventh-century Russian letter incised on birch bark.

The language is the Old Novgorod dialect of the Old East Slavic language. The alphabet is ancient Cyrillic.

About a thousand such birch-bark documents have been excavated in Novgorod, Russia, and some other historical towns since 1951.

They have provided information not only on the vernacular language of the time, but also about the ways and mores of Russians at a time when the country was in the throes of being Christianized.

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Scanned from А. Шицгал, Русский гражданский шрифт, "Исскуство", 1958. Pre-1973 Soviet work, out of copyright.

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(del) (cur) 21:22, 24 April 2006 . . Eliashc (Talk | contribs) . . 1073×548 (39,129 bytes) (optimized using optipng.)
(del) (rev) 03:18, 10 July 2004 . . A. Shetsen (Talk | contribs) . . 1073×548 (40,080 bytes) (I scanned this from А. Шигал, Русский гражданский шрифт, "Исс&#)