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It was widespread in Croatia until the late middle ages, about XIV-XV century.
Noone knows how to read it, apart from some linguists and overzealous Witcher fans.
I could fluently read and write it in high school. Was bored.
Yea, Croatia is the only place it got widely used. Is it some kind of historical elective course in Croatian schools? Been a coupe of times in Croatia, never seen Glagolitic in the wild, though. Maybe wasn't looking good enough.
Is it some kind of historical elective course
No, there was a poster showing correspondence with Latin on the wall, somewhere. The symbols are almost 1-1 with modern orthography, so it takes only about a week of practice. And I was really bored.
never seen Glagolic in the wild
It's about as distant from modern use as runes are for germanic speakers, but maybe with different connotations. Decorative nonsense.
But I did submit essays written with that when I wanted to fail with style. :)
I also met a guy in college who used it to keep notes. That guy was also bored.
I guess I'll just add you guys to the "overzealous Witcher fans" and consider my point valid.
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I mean regular people don't know how to read it, except if you randomly decided you wanted to. It's pretty big culturally, e.g. the Baška tablet is a very important piece of history written in glagolitic that everyone knows about, and I've seen the alphabet randomly displayed in a few places, but nobody actually uses it today.