Bulgarian language, Bulgarian Bŭlgarski ezik, South Slavic language written in the Cyrillic alphabet and spoken in Bulgaria and parts of Greece, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine.
He learned that it is almost the size of Pennsylvania, with a population of about 9 million--nearly the size of Michigan--most of whom are Slavic and Turkic-Bulgar in origin & whose language, Bulgarian, is about as close to Russian as English is to German.
The oldest written Slavic language, Bulgarian is distinguishable from the other languages in this group through certain grammatical peculiarities such as the lack of noun cases and infinitives, and a suffixed definite article.
(in thousands): Among the many languages and dialects used in the EU, it has 24 official and working languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, and Swedish.
The Serbian form has parallels in virtually all Slavic languages: Bulgarian and Macedonian вампир (vampir), Bosnian: lampir, Croatian vampir, Czech and Slovak upír, Polish wąpierz, and (perhaps East Slavic-influenced) upiór, Ukrainian упир (upyr), Russian упырь (upyr), Belarusian упыр (upyr), from Old East Slavic упирь (upir).
The translation of the final version of the questionnaire produced identical versions of the questionnaire in 7 languages ((Bulgarian, Dutch, English, German, Greek, Polish and Spanish).
The HLS-EU-Q86 was translated from English into six languages (Bulgarian, Dutch, German, Greek, Polish and Spanish) by professional translators and verified by the national research teams as well as by translators associated with TNS opinion, who facilitated the data collection on behalf of the HLS-EU Consortium.
As I noted earlier, they are rare in the world's languages and are not even employed in many Indo-European languages (for example Slavic languages, with the exception of southern Slavic languages like Bulgarian).
Today there are 24 of these official languages, including Bulgarian, Danish, Croatian and, obviously, English.
A 2006 report by Alexander Stubb MEP highlighted that by only using English, French and German costs could be reduced from €118,000 per day (for 21 languages then Romanian, Bulgarian and Croatian having not yet been included) to €8,900 per day.
The second dispute is over the existence of a Macedonian language distinct from Bulgarian, the denial of which is a position supported by nationalist groups, Bulgarian and other linguists and also by many ordinary Bulgarians.
