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Bulgarian

Also known as Bulgarian language, Bŭlgarski

South Slavic language

AI overview

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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Wikidata facts

Instance of: modern language
Subclass of: South Slavic
Country: Russia
Location: Balkans
Image: Bulgarska Azbuka.png
Said to be same as: Macedonian

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category for films in this language: Category:Bulgarian-language films
female form of label: la langue bulgare
topic's main category: Category:Bulgarian language
Commons category: Bulgarian language
Wikimedia language code: bg
writing system: Cyrillic script
topic has template: Template:Bulgarian language
P11012: Larry Sanger
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 9000000
native label: български език
studied by: Bulgarian studies
has grammatical mood: admirative
short name: балгарская
different from: Bulgar
indigenous to: Edirne Province
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
P10369: zero
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
entry in abbreviations table: болг.
has grammatical gender: neuter
has tense: future perfect
has grammatical case: dative case
history of topic: history of the Bulgarian language
exact match: afbo.info/languages/9

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bulgarian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.