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Name:
Bulgarian
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Balgarski; Pomak; Bulgarisch; Old Bulgarian; Middle Bulgarian
Spoken in:
Moldova, Ukraine, USA, Serbia and Montenegro, Israel, Canada, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Turkey, Serbia
Number of speakers:
7,990,000 in Bulgaria (1986). Population total all countries: 9,097,220
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
25000
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
8954811
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
bul
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Language:
Middle Bulgarian (003)
Child Dialect Groups:
Western Bulgarian (bul-wes)
Eastern Bulgarian (bul-eas)
Child Dialects:
Anatolian (bul-ana)
Wallachian (bul-wal)
Banat (bul-ban)
Palityan; Pomakci; Pomakika; Palitiani; Bogomil (bul-pal)
Transylvanian (bul-tra)
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Bulgarian
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