| Also Known As: Български език,Bulgarian,Pomak,Balgarski
Description:
Bulgarian dialects (Bulgarian: български диалекти, balgarski dialekti, also български говори, balgarski govori or български наречия, balgarski narechiya) are the regional spoken varieties of the Bulgarian language, a South Slavic language. Bulgarian dialectology dates to the 1830s and the pioneering work of Neofit Rilski, Bolgarska gramatika (published 1835 in Kragujevac). Other notable researchers in this field include Marin Drinov, Konstantin Josef Jireček, Lyubomir Miletich, Aleksandar Teodorov-Balan, Stoyko Stoykov.
Bulgarian dialects are part of the South Slavic dialect continuum, linked with Serbian and Macedonian to the west and bordering Albanian, Greek and Turkish to the south, and Romanian to the north.
The dialects of Macedonia were for the most part classified as part of Bulgarian in the older literature and continue to be treated as such in contemporary Bulgarian linguistics. Since the second half of the 20th century, foreign authors have mostly adopted the convention of treating these in terms of a separate Macedonian language, following the codification of Macedonian as the literary standard language of Yugoslav Macedonia. Macedonian authors in turn tend to treat all..... full article at Wikipedia |
Location of Bulgarian Language Speakers
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53.000000, 9.000000, Europe
42.375506, 25.162857, Bulgaria</googlemap>
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