Welcome to Hum - The Smallest City In The World. There were 17 people on the 2001 consensus, but there are apparently only 5 people who actually live there now, and it's officially a city. They have a mayor and each year there is a big election where people from all over the region come and vote. It's like a festival.
This town dates back to the year 1102 and there was some special type of writing founded there - Glagolitic writing ...
Letter | Cyrillic | Sound | OCS name | CS name | Meaning | Origin | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ⰰ | А | /ɑ/ | Azъ | Az | I | Phoenician alphabet Aleph or the sign of the cross[18] | |
Ⰱ | Б | /b/ | Buky | Buky | letters | Unknown[18] | |
Ⰲ | В | /ʋ/ | Vědě | Vedi | to know | Possibly Latin V[18] | |
Ⰳ | Г | /ɡ/ | Glagoli | Glagoli | to do/to speak | Possibly cursive Greek gamma γ[18] | |
Ⰴ | Д | /d/ | Dobro | Dobro | kindness/good | Greek delta Δ[18] | |
Ⰵ | Є, Е, Э | /ɛ/ | Jestъ | Jest | is/exists | Possibly Samaritan he ࠄ or Greek sampiϡ[18] | |
Ⰶ | Ж | /ʒ/ | Živěte | Zhivete | life/live | Unknown,[18] possibly Coptic janjaϫ[citation needed] or Pisces (astrology) | |
Ⰷ | Ѕ | /dz/ | Dzělo | Dzelo | very | Unknown[18] | |
Ⰸ | З | /z/ | Zemlja | Zemlja | Earth/ground/soil | Possible a variant of Greek theta θ[18] | |
Ⰹ, Ⰺ | , | И, Й | /i, j/ | Iže | Izhe | which is/the | Possibly Greek iota with dieresis ϊ[18] |
Ⰻ | І, Ї | /i, j/ | I | I | and (&) | Unknown,[18] | |
Ⰼ | Ћ, Ђ | /dʑ/ | Djervь, ǵervь | tree/wood | Unknown[18] | ||
Ⰽ | К | /k/ | Kako | Kako | how/as | Hebrew qoph ק[18] | |
Ⰾ | Л | /l, ʎ/ | Ljudie | Ljudi | people | Possibly Greek lambda λ[18] | |
Ⰿ | М | /m/ | Myslite | Mislete | thought/think | Greek mu μ[18] | |
Ⱀ | Н | /n, ɲ/ | Našь | Nash | ours | Unknown[18] | |
Ⱁ | О | /ɔ/ | Onъ | On | he | Unknown[18] | |
Ⱂ | П | /p/ | Pokoj | Pokoj | calmness/peace | Possibly a variant of early Greek pi Π[18] | |
Ⱃ | Р | /r/ | Rьci, rьtsi | Rtsi | Speak!/Pronounce! | Possibly Greek rho ρ[18] | |
Ⱄ | С | /s/ | Slovo | Slovo | word/speech | Unknown,[18] | |
Ⱅ | Т | /t/ | Tvrьdo | Tverdo | solid/hard/surely | Perhaps from crossbar of Greek tau τ[18] | |
Ⱆ | У | /u/ | Ukъ | Uk | Knowledgeable/Enlightened | Ligature of onъ and izhitsa[18] | |
Ⱇ | Ф | /f/ | Frьtъ | Fert | Variant of Greek phi φ[18] | ||
Ⱈ | Х | /x/ | Xěrъ | Kher | Unknown, similar to glagoli and Latinh[18] | ||
Ⱉ | Ѡ | /ɔ/ | Otъ | Oht, Omega | From | Ligature of onъ and its mirror image[18] | |
Ⱋ | Щ | /tʲ, ʃt/ | Šta/Šča | Shta/Shcha | Ligature of sha over tvrьdo[18] | ||
Ⱌ | Ц | /ts/ | Ci, tsi | Tsi | Final form of Hebrew tsade ץ[18] | ||
Ⱍ | Ч | /tʃ/ | Črьvъ | Cherv | worm | Unknown, similar to shta[18] perhaps non-final form of Hebrew tsade צ | |
Ⱎ | Ш | /ʃ/ | Ša | Sha | Hebrew shin ש[18] | ||
Ⱏ | Ъ | /ɯ/ | Jerъ | Yer | Possibly modification of onъ[18] | ||
ⰟⰉ | Ы | /ɨ/ | Jery | Yery | Ligature, see the note under the table | ||
Ⱐ | Ь | /ə/ | Jerь | Yer` | Possibly modification of onъ[18] | ||
Ⱑ | Ѣ | /æ, jɑ/ | Jatь, Yatь | Yat | Possibly epigraphic Greek alpha Α[18] | ||
Ⱖ | Ё | */jo/ | Unknown:[18] Hypothetical component of jonsь below; /jo/ was not possible at the time | ||||
Ⱓ | Ю | /ju/ | Ju, yu | Yu | Unknown[18] | ||
Ⱔ | Ѧ, Я | /ɛ̃/ | [Ensь] | Ya, Small yus | Greek epsilon ε, also used to denote nasality[18] | ||
Ⱗ | Ѩ | /jɛ̃/ | [Jensь] | [Small iotated yus] | Ligature of jestъ and ensь for nasality[18] | ||
Ⱘ | Ѫ | /ɔ̃/ | [Onsь] | [Big yus] | Ligature of onъ and ensь for nasality[18] | ||
Ⱙ | Ѭ | /jɔ̃/ | [Jonsь] | [Big iotated yus] | Ligature of unknown letter and ensь for nasality[18] | ||
Ⱚ | Ѳ | /θ/ | [Thita] | Fita | Greek theta θ[18] | ||
Ⱛ | Ѵ | /ʏ, i/ | Ižica | Izhitsa | spoon | Unknown[18] |
(Thank you Wikipedia)
...the oldest Slavic alphabet from the 9th century. The creation of the characters is apparently attributed to Saints Cyril and Methodius, who may have created them in order to facilitate the introduction of Christianity, by translating the bible for the people of that region.
These are the doors to the city. The feature 12 circles with pictures showing the people what jobs they should be doing each day.
There are also two door knockers covered in the ancient Glagolitic script.
And the two bull horns that both represent the animals they used to work their fields as well as acting as pretty funky door handles.
Hands up if you can translate this.
Here's a cheat sheet for you.... although, hint.... the don't correspond with the qwerty keyboard.
There are two streets that look just like this...
A couple of souvenir shops and 2 bars!
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