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Bulgarian Language
Bulgarian is spoken by about 90 percent of the population of Bulgaria,
or some 8 million people. it is one of the Slavic languages and,
in fact, played an important role in the historical development
of this family. When the first alphabet for the Slavic languages
was devised in the 9th century, it was a dialect of Bulgarian that
served as the base. Old Bulgarian, or Old Church Slavonic as it
came to be called, long served as the literary vehicle of all the
Slavic languages. During the Middle Ages it was one of the three
major literary languages of Europe.
The modern Bulgarian alphabet is virtually the same as the Russian,
except that the ***, the little used "hard sign" in Russian,
in Bulgarian serves as a vowel. It is pronounced something like
the u in the English word "fur" and is, in fact, the second
letter in the word Bulgaria. Bulgarian also differs from the other
Slavic languages in that it makes use of articles, both definite
and indefinite, the former being suffixed to the noun. The verb
has no infinitive form-like the English infinitive, which is formed
by placing the word "to" in front of the verb, the Bulgarian
infinitive is formed with the word da.
Bulgarian is spoken/used in the
following countries: Bulgaria, Macedonia.
Language Family
Family: Indo-European
Subgroup: Slavic
Branch: Southern
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