Topic: Dostoino Yest

[PeaceSerenity]

Does anyone happen to have the words to Dostoino Yest in English phonetics that they could share with me? I was listening to a CD by Divna and it was so beautiful, I would love to have the words so I can sing along 

Thanks in advance!

[Iconodule]

Dostojno est jako voistinu blazhiti tja Bogorodicu, prisnoblazhennuju i preneporochnuju i mater Boga nashego.
Chestnejshuju heruvim i slavnejshuju bez sravnenija serafim; Bez iztlenija Boga Slova rozhdshuju, sushtuju Bogorodicu tja velichaem.

[PeaceSerenity]

Thanks so much!!

[LBK]

Or, try this version:

Dostoyno yest yako voistinnu blazhiti tya Bogoroditsu, priznoblazhennuyu i prenyeporochnuyu i Mater Boga nashego. Chestneyshuyu Kheruvim, i slavnyeyshuyu bez sravneniya Serafim, bez istlyeniya Boga Slova rozhdshuyu, sushchuyu Bogoroditsu tya velichayem.

[Heorhij]

In vernacular Ukrainian:

"Dostojno je, i tse je istyna, slavyty Tebe, Bohorodytsyu, zavzhdy slavnu i preneporochnu, i matir Boha nashogo. Chesnishu vid kheruvymiv i nezrivnyanno slavnishu vid serafymiv, Ty, shcho bez istlinnya Boha Slovo porodyla, istynnu Bohorodytsyu, Tebe velychajemo. Pid Tvoju mylist' prybihajemo, Bohorodytse Divo, molytov nashyx u chas zhurby ne vidkyn', a z bidy vyzvoly nas, jedyna chysta j blahoslovenna. Preslavna Vsedivo, maty Khrysta Boha, prynesy molytvu nashu Synovi Tvoejemu i Bohu nashomu, shchob Vin spas zarady Tebe dushi nashi."

As a Ukrainian "nationalist," I say these words every morning and every evening (and sometimes during the day), and I can't say them in any other language with the same natural feeling.

[LizaSymonenko]

I'm with you Heorhij!

To "us" it sounds best in Ukrainian....but, that would hold true to every single individual.  It sounds best to their ear, in the language they are accustomed to.  Usually the language their own mother spoke to them.

[podkarpatska]

I Googled the singer in question and it seems Divna is Serbian. I must admit that I have never lived where there is a Serbian Orthodox Church and am thus unaware of the standard Serbian pronunciations of Church Slavonic. Perhaps one of our Serbian friends could provide the proper phonetic pronunciation for the CD in question as the using the 'wrong' (please take no offense - I am using the word 'wrong' in a contextual sense only) pronunciation would make singing along difficult. We run into this problem with local PanOrthodox Choirs from time to time.

[ialmisry]

I Googled the singer in question and it seems Divna is Serbian. I must admit that I have never lived where there is a Serbian Orthodox Church and am thus unaware of the standard Serbian pronunciations of Church Slavonic. Perhaps one of our Serbian friends could provide the proper phonetic pronunciation for the CD in question as the using the 'wrong' (please take no offense - I am using the word 'wrong' in a contextual sense only) pronunciation would make singing along difficult. We run into this problem with local PanOrthodox Choirs from time to time.

Yes, there's a difference of Slavonic recensions, like the pronunciation of Hebrew by Jews around the world.

The usual Slavonic pronunciation in Russia Churches actually shows Ukrainian features (no devoicing of finals (e.g. b becoming p at the end of a word); no sluring of vowels, pronouncing of Г as "gh" or "h" and not "g" etc.). Serbia had its own recension of Slavonic, which it gave up during the national rebirth, adopting the Russian, but not adopting the Russian pronunciation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Slavonic#Russian_Church_Slavonic

[LBK]

The usual Slavonic pronunciation in Russia Churches actually shows Ukrainian features (no devoicing of finals (e.g. b becoming p at the end of a word); no sluring of vowels, pronouncing of Г as "gh" or "h" and not "g" etc.).

I would disagree with this. Having regularly attended Russian churches for quite some years, and listened to Church Slavonic sung or read by Russians from all over that country, be they native speakers or descendants of emigrants, such recensions are not the norm. I also have numerous recordings of a large variety of Russian liturgical services, from the 1950s to the present day, and the only time I've heard Ukrainian pronunciations are by Ukrainian individuals, or choirs based in Ukraine.

[podkarpatska]

Accents are just that, accents. Just like my friends in Jersey or Pittsburgh as opposed to our flat Great Lake patterns in upstate New York! The important thing is that we are singing and praying!

[LizaSymonenko]

^  Amen!

[Simone]

In vernacular Ukrainian:

"Dostojno je, i tse je istyna, slavyty Tebe, Bohorodytsyu, zavzhdy slavnu i preneporochnu, i matir Boha nashogo. Chesnishu vid kheruvymiv i nezrivnyanno slavnishu vid serafymiv, Ty, shcho bez istlinnya Boha Slovo porodyla, istynnu Bohorodytsyu, Tebe velychajemo.

There is also an another Ukrainian version (translated by the Servant of God, archbishop Josyf Slipyj), used in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. It is more similar to the Church Slavonic version.

Dostojno je voistynu * welychaty blazhennoju Tebe, Bohorodycju, * prysnoblazhennu i preneporochnu * i Matir Boha nashoho. * Chesnishu vid Xeruvymiv * i nezrivnianno slavnishu vid Serafymiv * shcho bez zotlinnia Boha Slovo porodyla, * sushchu Bohorodycu, Tebe welychajemo.

Using Ukrainian Cyrillic:

Достойно є воістину * величати блаженною Тебе, Богородицю, * присноблаженну, і лренепорочну, * і Матір Бога нашого. * Чеснішу від херувимів * і незрівнянно славніиіу від серафимів, * що без зотління Бога Слово породила, * сущу Богородицю, Тебе величаємо.

[stashko]

I Googled the singer in question and it seems Divna is Serbian. I must admit that I have never lived where there is a Serbian Orthodox Church and am thus unaware of the standard Serbian pronunciations of Church Slavonic. Perhaps one of our Serbian friends could provide the proper phonetic pronunciation for the CD in question as the using the 'wrong' (please take no offense - I am using the word 'wrong' in a contextual sense only) pronunciation would make singing along difficult. We run into this problem with local PanOrthodox Choirs from time to time.

In serbian.... Dostojno jest.... she sings it on u-tub if i remember correctly........... here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7wKelfaifQ

In This link she sing quite a lot of different hymns...http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=divna+ljubojevic&suggested_categories=10&page=1