Talk:Codex Marianus

What do other pedias say on this
The article on Serbian Wikipedia claims that this is "the oldest Serbian book" and that Jagić inferred that "the scribe was in fact a Serb". The article on Bulgarian Wikipedia claims that phonological characteristic of the language indicate "a later stage of the Bulgarian language", and that by mixing of /ǫ/ and /u/ (which also merged in Serbo-Croatian BTW) it is "believed that the codex originates from northern Macedonia".

I think that this explains a bit some of the problematic recent edits - this manuscript is appropriated by several nations of as a part of their cultural heritage. I urge everyone to keep NPOV in mind. Modern nation-states have absolutely nothing to do with 11th-century manuscripts, and statements such as "Bulgarian, i.e. Macedonian" reek of Pan-Bulgarianism. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 20:04, 31 July 2013 (UTC)


 * It appears that the only thing of interest to a number of editors here is whether the scribe who copied the codex spoke a Slavic idiom ancetral (with respect to certain sound changes) to modern-day Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian od Macedonian. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 18:13, 14 October 2013 (UTC)