Еxternal history of the bulgarian language

Abstract

Bulgarian holds a special place in the family of Slavic languages. It is the first written Slavic language. At its early stage Old Bulgarian served as a common standard language of the Slaves, hence its alternative name abroad - Old Slavonic. A later form of the language adopted in the Duchy of Moscow, became a liturgical language of the Eastern Orthodox Slaves, known as Church Slavonic. The 19th century found the Bulgarian language dramatically changed. Unlike the other Slavic languages, the declension of nouns was completely lost. In contrast, quite an intricate system of tenses and moods evolved. In the vocabulary, borrowings and foreign expressions were abundant. However, the consciousness that Bulgaria is the homeland of the Cyrillic script and Slavic literature helped the standard Bulgarian language to recover its Slavic lexicon. The study is an analytical essay to examine the evolution of Bulgarian language from the perspective of the history of Bulgarians and their state. The first part covers the period up to the 14th century. The second part is devoted to the interaction between the Balkan languages and the emergence of the modem Bulgarian language.

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