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The doctoral dissertation titled The Linguistic Origin of the Old Church Slavonic is divided into three parts: introduction, theoretical and empirical part. The theoretical part of the dissertation comprises two units. In the first unit we discuss the basic notions in Slavonic studies which refer to the Slavs, their denominations (ethnonyms) throughout history, their protolanguage, their original homeland, the Slavic migrations, the beginnings of Slavic literacy, Old Church Slavonic. The purpose of this unit is to present an insight in the period before the origin of the Old Church Slavonic and on its occurrence. In the second unit of the theoretical part we deal with the occurrence of the most important question within the Slavonic studies, which was formulated at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century and which refers to the definition of the linguistic origin of the Old Church Slavonic. The answer to this question is presented in the form of two theories, the Pannonian (Pannonian-Carantanian) theory, defended by Jernej Kopitar and Franc Miklošič, and the Macedonian theory, proposed by Vatroslav Oblak and Vatroslav Jagić. Jernej Kopitar, followed by Franc Miklošič, both defended the theory in which the origin of the Old Church Slavonic stems from the Pannonian region, i.e. the language of the Slovenian ancestors. Jernej Kopitar discovered a number of words which were borrowed from Latin and German (oc6t7, lat. acetum, ol7tar6, lat. ataria; post7, Ger. Fasta, pop7, Ger. Pfaffo). He assumed that those were the words present only in the Slavic dialect, spoken by those inhabitants who occupied the area near where the Latin and German languages were spoken. He further supported his claim with certain words which were present in the language of the Pannonian-Moravian Slavs (balii, resnota, otok7, bratr7, rob7, pape'6). In addition to these arguments, Franc Miklošič added the notion of the existence of the nasalised vowels (4, %) and consonant clusters t and 'd in the Hungarian language in the borrowings of the Slavic origin (pentek Hung. : p%t7k7, szombota : s4bota; mozstoha, rozsda, Budapest), supposedly borrowed from the neighbouring Slavic or Slovene language. Vatroslav Jagić and his student (protégé) Vatroslav Oblak defended a different point of view. At the end of 1891, Oblak embarked on a study trip around southern Macedonia, where he was studying the dialects of the Solun area. He discovered linguistic reflexes in the dialect of the Suho village near Solun, which are closely linked to Old Church Slavonic. According to Vatroslav Oblak, the following characteristics are of most importance: (1) the development of % > o and % > e as one of the oldest Slavic manuscripts, (2) nasal articulation of the nasal vowel reflexes 4 and %, (3) the preservation of the consonant clusters t and 'd as in the Old Church Slavonic, (4) the lack of differentiation of the reflexes of the old 5 = %. The final result was the propogation of the Macedonian or the Macedonian-Bulgarian theory, which is based on the fact that the brothers Saints Cyril and Methodius considered the spoken dialects from the vicinity of Solun as the basis of the Old Church Slavonic, and with that, Oblak refuted the older Pannonian theory regarding the origin of the Old Church Slavonic. It can therefore be established that both theories offer different answers and assume a one-sided standpoint, which does not take sociolinguistic circumstances into account. The proponents of the Pannonian theory basically refer to the vocabulary, while the proponents of the Macedonian theory refer to the arguments of the historical phonetics and phonology. In the next chapter an overview of the questions regarding the linguistic origin of the Old Church Slavonic among Slovene linguists of the 20th century is presented, whereby we focus on the positions of Martina Orožen, Alenka Šivic Dular, Vanda Babič and Matej Šekli. We establish that Martina Orožen is more inclined towards the theory of Janez Kopitar and Franc Miklošič, despite a more restrained Pan-Slavic view, which she supports in one of her articles. The other three authors discuss the linguistic origin from the standpoint of genetic linguistics and support it with arguments from historical phonetics and phonology, assuming that Old Church Slavonic is based on Southern-Slavic foundations. In the next chapter we establish % based on the Genetic Linguistic theory of Dalibor Brozović % that the Old Church Slavonic as a literary language is the highest ranked inorganic concrete idiom with its own organic base in the form of the local dialect. This inorganic status was achieved through developments in civilization; that is by the incorporation of Greek elements into the Southern-Slavic area and later with the transfer of the Great Moravian-Pannonian elements within the Great Moravian-Pannonian territory. The empirical part of the doctoral dissertation consists of: (1) a description of the phonological bases of the Suho region dialect, (2) a short description of the morphological image of the Suho region dialect, (3) a comparative analysis of the key reflexes among the Lagadin-Bogdan dialects, (4) a comparative analysis of the reflexes for the Proto-Slavic clusters *tj and *dj among the Solun-Voden and Ser-Lagadin southern Macedonian dialects, (5) analysis of the occurrence of the vocabulary of the Western (Moravian-Pannonian) origin from the Canon manuscripts of the Old Church Slavonic and the later Macedonian manuscripts from the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. The existence of the consonant clusters št and žd and the comparative analysis of other reflexes within the Lagadin-Bogdan group of dialects have showed us that the Suho region, Visoka region and Zarovo region dialects comprise a dialectal oasis, which preserves the reflexes (ä, development of % > o and % > e, as well as št and žd), while the neighbouring dialects show examples of newer reflexes (denasalisation, the Ekavian development of 5, g% in k%). On the basis of the analyses we have come to a conclusion that the initial organic basis of the Old Church Slavonic is most likely the Solun dialect region and its vicinity from the 9th century, which is nowadays best preserved in the dialects of the villages of Suho, Visoka and Zarovo. The last part of the empirical part provides the analysis of the occurrence of the vocabulary of Western (Moravian-Pannonian) origin in the Canon manuscripts of the Old Church Slavonic and the Macedonian manuscripts from the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. The analysis confirmed the presence of numerous Great Moravian-Pannonian words in the Macedonian manuscripts, which were incorporated into the Macedonian texts upon the return of the Saints Cyril and Methodius' students to the Macedonian-Bulgarian region. We can establish that with the Genetic Linguistic view of the linguistic origin of the Old Church Slavonic we can define its organic basis. By taking into account the Great Moravian-Pannonian vocabulary, we suggest a wider view of the formation of the Old Church Slavonic, that is to say through the prism of historical and sociolinguistic circumstances and in its full scope, which includes all phases of the development in time and space. At the end of the doctoral dissertation the list of literature (References) is presented, as well as Appendix with the selected spoken texts from the Solun village of Suho.