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Bulgarian language

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Bulgarian
български
Native toBulgaria, Turkey, Serbia, Greece, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and among emigrant communities worldwide
RegionSoutheastern Europe
Native speakers
9 million (2005–2012)[1][2]
Indo-European
Cyrillic (Bulgarian alphabet)
Bulgarian Braille
Official status
Official language in
 Bulgaria
 European Union
Mount Athos
Recognised minority
language in
Regulated byInstitute for the Bulgarian language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Институт за български език към Българската академия на науките (БАН))
Language codes
ISO 639-1bg
ISO 639-2bul
ISO 639-3bul
Linguasphere53-AAA-hb < 53-AAA-h

Bulgarian (български език, [ˈbɤ̞lɡarski ɛˈzik]) is an Indo-European language. It is spoken mainly in Bulgaria and parts of North Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine and Moldova. The Bulgarian language is similar to the Macedonian and the Serbian languages, which are part of the South Slavic branch of Slavic languages. There are nearly 9 million people in 2011 who use Bulgarian as their main language.[4]

Bulgarian is a part of the so-called Balkan "Sprachbund" or linguistic group, which also includes Greek, Macedonian, Romanian, Albanian, and the Torlakian dialect of the Serbian language. This does not mean the languages are necessarily related, but that they share certain loanwords and grammatical characteristics due to frequent contact over the years.

Alphabet

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А а
/a/
Б б
/b/
В в
/v/
Г г
/g/
Д д
/d/
Е е
/ɛ/
Ж ж
/ʒ/
З з
/z/
И и
/i/
Й й
/j/
К к
/k/
Л л
/l/
М м
/m/
Н н
/n/
О о
/ɔ/
П п
/p/
Р р
/r/
С с
/s/
Т т
/t/
У у
/u/
Ф ф
/f/
Х х
/x/
Ц ц
/ʦ/
Ч ч
/tʃ/
Ш ш
/ʃ/
Щ щ
/ʃt/
Ъ ъ
/ɤ̞/, /ə/
Ь ь
/◌ʲ/
Ю ю
/ju/
Я я
/ja/
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References

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  1. "Bulgarian language". The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Columbia University Press.
  2. Rehm, Georg; Uszkoreit, Hans. "The Bulgarian Language in the European Information Society". Springer Science+Business Media.
  3. Law of Ukraine "On Principles of State Language Policy, Article 7, part 2 (in Ukrainian)
  4. "Bulgarian language statistics". Ethnologue.com. Retrieved 24 March 2013.