A report on Bulgarian language
South Slavic language spoken in Southeastern Europe, primarily in Bulgaria.
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Pluricentric language
4 linksLanguage with several interacting codified standard forms, often corresponding to different countries.
Language with several interacting codified standard forms, often corresponding to different countries.
Some linguists and scholars, mostly from Bulgaria and Greece, but some also from other countries, consider Eastern South Slavic to be a pluricentric language with four standards: Bulgarian (based on the Rup, Balkan and Moesian ("Eastern Bulgarian") dialects), Macedonian (based on the Western and Central Macedonian dialects), Gorani (based on the Torlakian dialects), and Paulician (including Banat Bulgarian).
Bessarabian Bulgarians
1 linksThe Bessarabian Bulgarians (бесарабски българи, besarabski bǎlgari, bulgari basarabeni, Болгари Бессарабії, bolháry bessarabiyi) are a Bulgarian minority group of the historical region of Bessarabia, inhabiting parts of present-day Ukraine (Odessa Oblast) and Moldova.
The Bessarabian Bulgarians (бесарабски българи, besarabski bǎlgari, bulgari basarabeni, Болгари Бессарабії, bolháry bessarabiyi) are a Bulgarian minority group of the historical region of Bessarabia, inhabiting parts of present-day Ukraine (Odessa Oblast) and Moldova.
53,178 or 80.99% of ethnic Bulgarians declared Bulgarian language as native (69.23% in urban areas, and 90.55% in rural ones), 2,766 or 4.21% of them declared Romanian language as native (4.91% in urban areas, and 3.64% in rural ones), 9,134 or 13.91% of them declared Russian language as native (25.08% in urban areas, and 4.83% in rural ones), and 584 or 0.89% of them declared another language as native (0.78% in urban areas, and 0.98% in rural ones).
Serbia
5 linksLandlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkans.
Landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkans.
Recognised minority languages are: Hungarian, Bosnian, Slovak, Croatian, Albanian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Rusyn, and Macedonian.
North Macedonia
7 linksCountry in Southeast Europe.
Country in Southeast Europe.
Macedonian is closely related to and mutually intelligible with standard Bulgarian.
Bulgarian Americans
1 linksBulgarian Americans (Американски българи) are Americans of Bulgarian descent.
Bulgarian Americans (Американски българи) are Americans of Bulgarian descent.
To Chicago and Back, (Bulgarian:"До Чикаго и назад") by the eminent Bulgarian author Aleko Konstantinov; first published in 1894 mostly concerns attendance at a trade fair, not emigration per se.
Parteniy Zografski
2 links19th-century Bulgarian cleric, philologist, and folklorist from Galičnik in today's North Macedonia, one of the early figures of the Bulgarian National Revival.
19th-century Bulgarian cleric, philologist, and folklorist from Galičnik in today's North Macedonia, one of the early figures of the Bulgarian National Revival.
In his works he referred to his language as Bulgarian and demonstrated a Bulgarian spirit, though besides contributing to the development of the Bulgarian language, In North Macedonia he is also thought to have contributed to the foundation of the present day Macedonian.
Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia
3 linksSlavic speakers are a linguistic minority population in the northern Greek region of Macedonia, who are mostly concentrated in certain parts of the peripheries of West and Central Macedonia, adjacent to the territory of the state of North Macedonia.
Slavic speakers are a linguistic minority population in the northern Greek region of Macedonia, who are mostly concentrated in certain parts of the peripheries of West and Central Macedonia, adjacent to the territory of the state of North Macedonia.
The Slavic dialects spoken across Northern Greece belong to the eastern group of South Slavic, comprising Bulgarian and Macedonian, and share all the characteristics that set this group apart from other Slavic languages: existence of a definite article, lack of cases, lack of a verb infinitive, comparative forms of adjectives formed with the prefix по-, future tense formed by the present form of the verb preceded by ще/ќе, and existence of a renarrative mood.
Russian language
5 linksEast Slavic language mainly spoken across Russia.
East Slavic language mainly spoken across Russia.
Also, Russian has notable lexical similarities with Bulgarian due to a common Church Slavonic influence on both languages, but because of later interaction in the 19th and 20th centuries, Bulgarian grammar differs markedly from Russian.
Arabic
4 linksSemitic language that first emerged in the 1st to 4th centuries CE.
Semitic language that first emerged in the 1st to 4th centuries CE.
The Balkan languages, including Greek and Bulgarian, have also acquired a significant number of words of Arabic origin through contact with Ottoman Turkish.
Sofia
3 linksCapital and largest city of Bulgaria.
Capital and largest city of Bulgaria.
Amongst others, the population consisted of Muslims, Bulgarian and Greek speaking Orthodox Christians, Armenians, Georgians, Catholic Ragusans, Jews (Romaniote, Ashkenazi and Sephardi), and Romani people.