The Glagolitic Script: Croatia's Alphabet of Stone

Croatia once had its own alphabet, older than Cyrillic and Latin in the region. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the Glagolitic script — its invention by Constantine and Methodius, its survival among Croatian monks, and its surprising grip on Croatian identity for nearly a thousand years. They trace the script from the ninth-century missions to the Baška Tablet, one of the oldest monuments of Croatian language, and follow its use in liturgy, law, and literature. The conversation touches on the strange early shapes — circles, triangles, crosses — that scholars still debate, and how Glagolitic became a symbol of Croatian uniqueness while Latin and Cyrillic pulled from all sides. Lucas explains why the script persisted in Croatia long after it vanished elsewhere, how it survived the printing press and the Counter-Reformation, and why a small island community kept writing in it into the twentieth century. The episode ends with a reflection on what it means when a people's identity is written in a script that almost no one outside their borders can read.

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