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Bulgarian

Also known as Bulgarian language, Bŭlgarski

South Slavic language

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Bulgarian is a South Slavic language spoken primarily in Bulgaria and by Bulgarian diaspora communities around the world. It matters as the official language of Bulgaria and an important representative of the South Slavic language group, which includes several languages across southeastern Europe.

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female form of label: la langue bulgare
Commons category: Bulgarian language
Wikimedia language code: bg
P11012: Larry Sanger
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 9000000
native label: български език
short name: балгарская
P10369: zero
entry in abbreviations table: болг.
exact match: afbo.info/languages/9

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Bulgarian is an Eastern South Slavic language spoken in Southeast Europe, primarily in Bulgaria. It is the language of the Bulgarians.

Along with the closely related Macedonian language (collectively forming Macedo-Bulgarian), it is a member of the Balkan sprachbund and South Slavic dialect continuum of the Indo-European language family. The two languages have several characteristics that set them apart from all other Slavic languages, including the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article, and the lack of a verb infinitive. They retain and have further developed the Proto-Slavic verb system (albeit analytically). One such major development is the innovation of evidential verb forms to encode for the source of information: witnessed, inferred, or reported.