Bulgarian language

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Bulgarian is a South Slavic language spoken primarily in Bulgaria, notable for being the first Slavic language with a written literary tradition and for its distinctive grammatical features such as the loss of noun cases and the use of suffixed definite articles.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Bulgarian 29
Bulgarian language canonical 8
Modern Bulgarian 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (70)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-European language
South Slavic language
standard language
belongsToSprachbund Balkan Sprachbund
closelyRelatedTo Macedonian language
linked to: Macedonian

Serbian language
Slovene language
linked to: Slovene
country Bulgaria
developedFrom Middle Bulgarian
earliestWritingSystem Glagolitic script
firstWrittenTradition 9th century
hasApproximateSpeakers around 7 million native speakers
hasDefiniteArticleType suffixed definite article
hasDialects Eastern Bulgarian dialects
Western Bulgarian dialects
hasGlottocode bulg1262
hasGrammaticalFeature clitic doubling
definite and indefinite noun forms
evidentiality distinctions in the verb system
lack of infinitive
loss of most noun cases
postposed definite article
rich verbal morphology
three grammatical genders
two grammatical numbers
use of da-constructions instead of infinitive
hasISO639-1Code bg
hasISO639-2Code bul
hasISO639-3Code bul
hasNativeName български език
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between hard and soft consonants
vowel reduction in unstressed syllables
hasWritingSystem Modern Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet
historicalAncestor Old Bulgarian
linked to: Church Slavonic

Old Church Slavonic
linked to: Church Slavonic
influencedBy Church Slavonic
Greek language
Russian language
Turkish language
isFirstSlavicLiteraryLanguage true
languageBranch Balto-Slavic languages
languageFamily Indo-European languages
languageGroup Slavic languages
languageSubgroup Eastern South Slavic languages
South Slavic languages
laterWritingSystem Early Cyrillic script
linked to: Cyrillic script
officialLanguageOf Bulgaria
European Union
regulatedBy Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Institute for Bulgarian Language
spokenIn Bulgaria
Greece
Moldova
Romania
Serbia
Turkey
Ukraine
diaspora communities worldwide
standardBasedOn Eastern Bulgarian dialects
status minority language in neighboring countries
official language
subclassOf Balkan Sprachbund language
Slavic language
usedAsLiturgicalLanguage Bulgarian Orthodox Church
usedIn Bulgarian education system
Bulgarian literature
Bulgarian media
usesAlphabet Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Cyrillic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (40)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Balkan Turkish influencedBy Bulgarian language
Bulgarian Communist Party language Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Emil hasLanguageOfUse Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Balto-Slavic languages includesLanguage Bulgarian language
Nicholas hasLanguageOfUse Bulgarian language
Varvara languageOfUse Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
John languageOfUse Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Alexey usedInLanguage Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Common Slavic ancestorOf Bulgarian language
Elena usedInLanguage Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Tarnovo languageUsed Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Nikopol languageUsed Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Samokov officialLanguage Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Bulgarian Army primaryLanguage Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Northeastern Bulgaria language Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
George hasLanguageOfUse Bulgarian
subject linked to: George (given name)
linked to: Bulgarian language
Serbo-Croatian hasLexicalSimilarityWith Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Nikolay languageOfUse Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Tamara usedIn Bulgarian language
Vsevolod languageOfUse Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Dobrich languageMajority Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Sandanski officialLanguage Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Dzherman languageOfName Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Bulgarian People's Army hasLanguage Bulgarian
subject linked to: BNA
linked to: Bulgarian language
Kazanlak languageOfficial Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Devin hasOfficialLanguage Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Lovech languageUsed Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Middle Bulgarian precedes Modern Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Middle Bulgarian historicalPhaseOf Bulgarian language
Middle Bulgarian transitionBetween Modern Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Eastern Bulgarian dialects partOf Bulgarian language
Eastern Bulgarian dialects influencedBy Standard Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Torlakian dialects transitionalBetween Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Bulgarian lev languageOfName Bulgarian
subject linked to: lev
linked to: Bulgarian language
Northern Bulgaria language Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Southern Common Slavic (hypothesized dialect area) underlies Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Kuzma usedInLanguage Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Yulia languageOfUse Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language
Zlatitsa languageUsed Bulgarian
linked to: Bulgarian language