prompted by the need to facilitate access to the Church Slavonic liturgical text.

The language spoken during this period had a phonological system of seven vowels and twenty-nine consonants. Particular to Old Romanian are the distribution of /z/, as the allophone of /dz/ from Common Romanian, in the Wallachian and south-east Transylvanian varieties, the presence of palatal sonorants /?/ and /n/, nowadays preserved only regionally in Banat