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Bulgarian

vr.tr.bulgarian · INF.MED

Let an agent describe the Bulgarian language and its varieties, support learning and translation, explain status and regulation, present the Macedonian question neutrally with attribution, and provide history with sources.

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Research draft, second pass

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Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent describe the Bulgarian language and its varieties, support learning and translation, explain status and regulation, present the Macedonian question neutrally with attribution, and provide history with sources.

A South Slavic language spoken by about seven million people, the official language of Bulgaria and spoken by communities in Ukraine, Moldova, Turkey and elsewhere, written in the Cyrillic alphabet, with eastern and western dialect groups and a standard developed in the nineteenth century; Bulgarian is notable among Slavic languages for its definite article and loss of case, and its relationship to Macedonian is a subject of attributed linguistic and political positions.

What it is for: A South Slavic language.

It can be describe the language and its dialects; support learning and translation; explain status and regulation; present contested questions neutrally.

Distinguishing features

South Slavic

Definite article and no cases

Cyrillic script

Diaspora communities

What it looks like

Not physical; spoken and written language in Cyrillic.

How it is recognised

South Slavic language

Cyrillic alphabet

Analytic grammar with definite article

Related models

is a kind of - category

South Slavic

is related to - another language entry

Swedish

is related to - another language entry

Malay

is related to - the Cyrillic alphabet

alphabet

In practice

Families and kinds

Standard Bulgarian

eastern dialects

western dialects

Bulgarian in diaspora communities

historical Old and Middle Bulgarian

Identifiers

ISO 639-1 bg language code

ISO 639-3 bul language code

Standards and regulation

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences language norms

National and EU official language status

Minority language provisions in other countries

Failure modes and hazards

Partisan presentation of the Macedonian language question

Overgeneralising dialects

Machine translation errors

Also called

Bulgarian language in TurkeyBulgarian language in MoldovaBulgarian language in UkraineBulgarian language in BulgariaWestern BulgarianOhrid dialectBreznik dialectEastern BulgarianPomakStruga dialectRup dialectsThracian dialectBabyak dialectBalkan BulgarianBelogradchik dialectBotevgrad dialectByala Slatina-Pleven dialectCentral Balkan dialectChepino dialectDupnitsa dialectElin Pelin dialectErkech dialectHvoyna dialectIhtiman dialectKyustendil dialectMoesianNorthwestern BulgarianPanagyurishte dialectPaulician dialectRazlog dialectSamokov dialectShumen dialectSmolyan dialectSofia dialectSouthwestern BulgarianStrandzha dialectSubbalkan dialectTeteven dialectTran dialectTransitional Bulgarian

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Learn Learning Bulgarian.

Practice.

Start

Getting started.

Start

Getting started.

  1. How can someone start learning Bulgarian, and which resources exist? action
  2. What are its main grammatical features, such as the definite article and verb system? definition

Script

Cyrillic and pronunciation.

Script

Script.

  1. How is the Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet used and pronounced, and how is it transliterated? provenance
  2. Which transliteration standard applies? provenance
Use Translation and varieties.

Application.

Translate

Translation.

Translate

Translation.

  1. How should this text be translated into or from Bulgarian, with attention to register? action
  2. Which dictionaries are authoritative? provenance

Dialects

Dialects and diaspora.

Dialects

Dialects.

  1. What are the eastern and western dialect groups, and how is Bulgarian spoken in Ukraine, Moldova and Turkey? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific variety? action
Status Status and debates.

Attribution.

Official

Official status.

Official

Status.

  1. What is the legal status of Bulgarian in Bulgaria, the EU and neighbouring countries? provenance
  2. Which bodies regulate it? provenance

Macedonian

The Macedonian question.

Macedonian

Macedonian question.

  1. What are the attributed positions of Bulgarian, North Macedonian and international linguists on the relationship between Bulgarian and Macedonian? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary
History History and literature.

Context.

History

History of Bulgarian.

History

History.

  1. How did Bulgarian develop from Old Church Slavonic through Middle Bulgarian to the modern standard? provenance
  2. Which texts are landmarks? provenance

Literature

Literature.

Literature

Literature.

  1. What are the major works of Bulgarian literature? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific work? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should dialects be separate entries?
  • How should dictionaries be linked?
  • How should contested questions be attributed?
Draft as JSON