Bulgarian is a South Slavic language spoken in Southeastern Europe, primarily in Bulgaria.
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13 Facts About Bulgarian language
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Until 1945, Bulgarian language orthography did not reveal this alternation and used the original Old Slavic Cyrillic letter yat, which was commonly called ?????? ? at the time, to express the historical yat vowel or at least root vowels displaying the ya – e alternation.
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The codifiers of the standard Bulgarian language did not wish to make any allowances for a pluricentric "Bulgaro-Macedonian" compromise.
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In 886 AD, the Bulgarian language Empire introduced the Glagolitic alphabet which was devised by the Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 850s.
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Bulgarian language has six vowel phonemes, but at least eight distinct phones can be distinguished when reduced allophones are taken into consideration.
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Parts of speech in Bulgarian language are divided in ten types, which are categorized in two broad classes: mutable and immutable.
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However, a recently developed Bulgarian language norm requires that count forms should only be used with masculine nouns that do not denote persons.
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Bulgarian language verbs express lexical aspect: perfective verbs signify the completion of the action of the verb and form past perfective forms; imperfective ones are neutral with regard to it and form past imperfective forms.
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Traditional interpretation is that in addition to the four moods shared by most other European languages – indicative imperative, subjunctive and conditional – in Bulgarian there is one more to describe a general category of unwitnessed events – the inferential mood.
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In Bulgarian language, there are several conjunctions all translating into English as "but", which are all used in distinct situations.
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Bulgarian language has several abstract particles which are used to strengthen a statement.
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The loanwords of Greek origin in Bulgarian are a product of the influence of the liturgical language of the Orthodox Church.
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Furthermore, after the independence of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire in 1878, Bulgarian intellectuals imported many French language vocabulary.
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