The difference can be seen in text. For example, Old Church Slavonic has more vowels and other nuances, like in this picture and that text is not readable by me. But in this book letters are simpler, has all the letters from Early Cyrillic alphabet and at the same time text can be read by a modern russian language speaker.
If you have the cover of that book with the title and can post it, then it is easier to find out what kind of prayer book it is and even get the scanned version of it on the internet.
Сборничокъ молитвъ для юношества Пересмотрилъ и исправилъ Гр. Шашкевичь
RU: Сборник молитв для юношества Пересмотрел и исправил Гр. Шашкевич
EN: A collection of prayers for the youth Revised and corrected Gr. Shashkevich
Really? that's what I thought to, hope someone picks this up that can tell WHAT LANGUAGE ???
I checked the internet about Russian language and following links about its history.
From the few pages you posted, it is really hard to understand the specific language for a non-specialist of those languages. But from what I understood, the text is written in Early Cyrillic alphabet that is closer to Russian than to other Slavonic languages. I believe it is the Church Slavonic language - Standard (Russian) variant and not the older Old Church Slavonic.
The difference can be seen in text. For example, Old Church Slavonic has more vowels and other nuances, like in this picture and that text is not readable by me. But in this book letters are simpler, has all the letters from Early Cyrillic alphabet and at the same time text can be read by a modern russian language speaker.
Hey, thanks so much, going to take time to read through what you sent, but thanks @scorer much appreciated @farm-mom
If you have the cover of that book with the title and can post it, then it is easier to find out what kind of prayer book it is and even get the scanned version of it on the internet.
OK thanks for info, been doing some reading this morning and it does appear to be the Church Slavonic language but not sure check this out
Nice. Now we know its title. 👍
Could not find much information about it. At least we know that the same book can be found in Ukraine.
https://opac.lviv.ua/bib/84946
And in Russia.
http://elibrary.domrz.ru/absopac/index.php?url=/notices/index/IdNotice:209436/Source:default
Сборничокъ молитвъ для юношества Пересмотрилъ и исправилъ Гр. Шашкевичь
RU: Сборник молитв для юношества Пересмотрел и исправил Гр. Шашкевич
EN: A collection of prayers for the youth Revised and corrected Gr. Shashkevich
oh weee thanks @scorer gotta a lot to do but you have been so helpful thank you
That is fascinating! It will be interesting to see if you can find out which ancestor it might have belonged to.
No, that is too much to ask for. 😂 I just understand a bit in Russian and can find something easier than a non speaker.