ON THREE LINGUISTIC CRITERIA FOR THE LOCALIZATION OF THE EARLIEST SLAVONIC MANUSCRIPTS: A CRITICAL REVIEW

 The article aims at analysis of some of the linguistic features of the earliest Slavonic manuscripts, which in scholarly tradition are considered not only as means for grouping some of these written monuments, but also as evidence of the region they originate from. On the basis of a critical review of studies carried out to date and after taking into consideration some lesser known and lesser used data, it is concluded that examples of changes of ъ into о, ѫ into ѹ and ѫ into о have different values, but none of them is indisputable and may be recognized as a decisive argument.