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The Bulgarian language, the state language of the Republic of Bulgaria, belongs to the South Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. An estimated 12 million people around the world speak Bulgarian, of which more than 11 million live in Bulgaria and the adjacent regions of Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia and Macedonia, as well as some parts of Romania, Ukraine and Moldova.
Written Bulgarian dates from the creation of the Glagolitic alphabet, devised by the Saints Cyril and Methodius in 862. Another Old Bulgarian script, the Cyrillic alphabet, appeared in the late IX century. During that period, the first documents in old-Bulgarian appeared, using both the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts.
Bulgaria became the heart of Slavic culture and literature, while Old Bulgarian served as the foundation for the Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, and Croatian versions of church language and became a literary norm for the Common Slavic language.
The modern Bulgarian language was established during the period of the national revival of Bulgaria from the second half of the XVIII century to the 1830s.
Fun Facts
Bulgarian has three types of articles: definite, indefinite and zero.
The letter “Ъ” (er goljám), or “big er”, the twenty-seventh letter of the Bulgarian alphabet, denotes a vowel, while in Russian it is called a “hard sign”.
