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	Bulgarian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bulgarian demonstrates several linguistic innovations that set it apart from other Slavic languages, such as the elimination of noun declension, the development of a suffixed definite article (possibly inherited from the Bulgar language), the lack of a verb infinitive, and the retention and further development of the proto-Slavic verb system.
		Several Cyrillic alphabets with 28 to 44 letters were used in the beginning and the middle of the 19th century during the efforts on the codification of Modern Bulgarian until an alphabet with 32 letters, proposed by Marin Drinov, gained prominence in the 1870s.
		Bulgarian verbs express lexical aspect: perfective verbs signify the completion of the action of the verb and form past aorist tenses; imperfective ones are neutral with regard to it and form past imperfect tenses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bulgarian_language (4249 words)

	Cyrillic alphabet -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The glyphs in the Cyrillic alphabet are, however, mainly (A native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire) Byzantine (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek letters.
		Later such alphabets were created for some of the (A vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters) Siberian and (The mountain range in Caucasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea that forms part of the traditional border between Europe and Asia) Caucasus peoples who had recently converted to Christianity.
		In some alphabets invented in the 19th century, such as (A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia) Mari, (The Finnic language spoken by the Votyak people) Udmurt and (The Turkic language spoken by the Chuvash people) Chuvash, umlauts and breves also were used.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cy/cyrillic_alphabet.htm (2838 words)

	Cyrillic alphabet
		The plan of the alphabet is derived from the early Cyrillic alphabet, itself a derivative of the Glagolitic alphabet, a ninth century uncial cursive usually credited to two brothers from Thessaloniki, Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius.
		The theory is supported by the fact that the Cyrillic alphabet almost completely replaced the Glagolitic in northeastern Bulgaria as early as the end of the tenth century, whereas the Ohrid Literary Schoolâ”where Saint Clement workedâ”continued to use the Glagolitic until the twelfth century.
		The alphabet was disseminated along with the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language, and the alphabet used for modern Church Slavonic language in Eastern Orthodox rites still resembles early Cyrillic.
	www.cooldictionary.com /words/Cyrillic-alphabet.wikipedia (2460 words)

	Encyclopedia: Cyrillic alphabet
		The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe.
		Zhe is the 7th letter of the Bulgarian and Belarusian alphabets, the 8th letter in the Macedonian, Russian and Serbian alphabets...
		Tablet inscribed with the Glagolitic alphabet The Glagolitic alphabet or Glagolitsa is the oldest known Slavonic alphabet.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cyrillic-alphabet (8757 words)

	Bulgaria.com - History of Bulgaria, Medieval Bulgarian Culture. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 866 AD the disciples of Cyril and Methodius brought this alphabet to the Bulgarian lands, and in 893 AD the General assembly of the nation declared it the official alphabet for the whole of the Bulgarian kingdom.
		Very few were the monuments of the medieval Bulgarian architecture that were left standing after the outrageous destruction of the Bulgarian towns by the ruthless Muslim conquerors at the end of the 14th through the middle of the 15th century.
		Sculpture and stone reliefs in the medieval Bulgarian art were used as an individual or a supplementary element of decoration in secular and church architecture and their grandeur and strict plasticity were outstanding indeed.
	www.bulgaria.com /history/bulgaria/medieval.html (2658 words)

	Bulgarian language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Bulgarian is a Southern Slavic language with about 12 million speakers mainly in Bulgaria, but also in Ukraine, Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Greece, Romania, Canada, USA, Australia, Germany and Spain.
		Bulgarian is mutually intelligible with Macedonian, and fairly closely related to Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Slovene.
		Bulgarian was the first Slavic language to be written: it start to appear in writing during the 9th century in the Glagolitic alphabet, which was gradually replaced by an early version of the Cyrillic alphabet over the following centuries.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/bulgarian.htm (350 words)

	Cyrillic alphabet - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Cyrillic alphabet is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe.
		Though the alphabet is usually attributed to Saint Climent of Ohrid, a Bulgarian scholar and disciple of Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius, the alphabet is more likely to have developed at the Preslav Literary School in northeastern Bulgaria, where the oldest Cyrillic inscriptions (dating back to the 940s) have been found.
		The theory is further supported by the fact that the Cyrillic alphabet replaced almost completely the Glagolitic one in northeastern Bulgaria as early as the end of the 10th century, whereas the Ohrid Literary School—where Saint Climent worked—continued to use the Glagolitic alphabet until the 12th century.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Cyrillic (2118 words)

	eRUNSMAGAZINE.COM > May 2003 >> History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The period 889-893 was perhaps the biggest test for the Cyrillic alphabet - during the political turmoils and uncertainties, the alphabet survived and established itself.
		On the Balkan peninsula, the dark period for the Cyrillic alphabet began in 15th century with the annihilation of the Slavic Kingdoms by the Ottomans.
		Bulgarian reforms are a typical example: when Bulgaria became independent in 1878, the new state immediately faced an educational problem - there were not unified grammar and ‘official’ literary language.
	www.erunsmagazine.com /0503?rq=history (3361 words)

	Bulgarian Children's Books, Bulgarian Desk Top Publishing, Bulgarian Dictionary, Bulgarian ESL-English as Second ...
		Bulgarian is spoken by about 90 percent of the population of Bulgaria, or some 8 million people.
		When the first alphabet for the Slavic languages was devised in the 9th century, it was a dialect of Bulgarian that served as the base.
		The modern Bulgarian alphabet is virtually the same as the Russian, except that the *, the little used "hard sign" in Russian, in Bulgarian** serves as a vowel.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Bulgarian.htm (341 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Cyrillic alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Cyrillic alphabet is used for the Chuvash language since the late 19th century, with some changes in 1938.
		Kazakh is also written with the Latin alphabet (in Turkey and now in Kazakhstan as well), and modified Arabic alphabet (in China, Iran and Afghanistan).
		Nowadays, this alphabet is still official in the breakaway republic of Transnistria.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Cyrillic_alphabet (3063 words)

	Bulgarian alphabet : Bulgaria
		The invention of the Cyrillic alphabet is attributed traditionally to Sts.
		From Bulgaria, the cultural center of the medieval Slavs, the Cyrillic alphabet spread to the neighboring countries, such as Serbia, and to the far-lying Eastern Slavs, the Russians, the Ukrainians, and the Belarussians.
		That necessitated an alphabet reform which reduced the number of letters used from 44 to 32; this modified alphabet was used until the Orthographic reform of 1945.
	www.kirildouhalov.net /language/alphabet.html (449 words)

	Bulgaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Bulgarian is the official language spoken by around 85% of the Bulgarian population; it has two significantly different dialects: eastern and western.
		The Middle Bulgarian period (twelfth to the fourteenth centuries) is considered a transitional stage for the Bulgarian language with significant changes in the vernacular; it was at this time that strong distinctions between Bulgarian and the other Slavonic languages were created.
		This alphabet (for Bulgarian) was reduced from forty-four letters to thirty-two and in the orthographic reform of 1945 further reduced with the removal of two more letters.
	scic.cec.eu.int /Main/enlargement/lan_pres/bulg_01.htm (884 words)

	Yer
		The letter "Ъ" ("ъ") of the Cyrillic alphabet is known as hard sign (твёрдый знак) in the modern Russian alphabet and as er golyam (ер голям, "big yer") in the Bulgarian alphabet.
		In Bulgarian, the er golyam is used for a vowel, [ə] (Schwa).
		In the Cyrillic Belarussian alphabet its functions are performed by the apostrophe mark.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/y/ye/yer.html (342 words)

	Plovdiv Guide and Plovdiv - the Tourism, Tradition and Culture Center of Bulgaria
		Then, in 20th century – in 1979, Pope John Paul II proclaimed the creators of the Slavonic alphabet, the Bulgarian Sts Cyril and Methodius, to also be Patrons of Europe.
		The Old Bulgarian language was the basis of Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, and Croatian variants and gained the significance of a universal literary Slavonic language.
		The modern Bulgarian literary language is characterized by dropping off the case forms, by the use of the definite article, by nine tenses, four moods, etc.
	plovdivcityguide.com /thingstoknow/1/cyrillic?lang_id=1 (894 words)

	Grapes Unlimited
		The history of the Bulgarian language is divided into three periods: old, middle, and modern.
		Bulgarian Period lasted from the 9th century through the 11th century; and the texts from this period
		Bulgarian Period lasted from the 12th century through the 14th century.
	www.grapesunlimited.com /cyrillic.html (1115 words)

	Yer - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In Bulgarian, the er golyam is used for a vowel, Template:IPA (Schwa).
		The letter is absent in the alphabets of the Belarusian.
		In the Cyrillic Belarusian alphabet its functions are performed by the apostrophe.
	www.unipedia.info /Yer.html (888 words)

	Easy Bulgarian .com - Learn Bulgarian Language Online - Lovely Romantic Phrases - Free Samples
		The Cyrillic alphabet is based in large part on the Greek alphabet, however, a few letters were created to represent Slavic sounds that didn't have Greek equivalents.
		Setting out to study Bulgarian may evoke memories of past attempts at learning a foreign language, be it in high school or college, with all the ensuing tedious memorization of words, and phrases, and grammar rules.
		Always have in mind that Bulgarians will be very pleased with your attempts to speak their language, and you will get closer to them, more so than other foreigners who do not try to learn at least a few phrases.
	www.easybulgarian.com (1058 words)

	BBC Education - Languages
		Bulgarian is a Southern Slavonic language, related to Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Macedonian.
		It is spoken as the official language in Bulgaria.
		In the 1870s, at the height of alphabetical confusion, people used a variety of letters, and the Bulgarian alphabet was estimated to have either 24 characters, 38 characters, or something in between.
	www.bbc.co.uk /languages/european_languages/languages/bulgarian.shtml (112 words)

	All Bulgaria Virtual Guide - Learning Cyrillic
		Their alphabet is known as Cyrillic and still today most of the Slavic countries, including Russia, use an extension of that alphabet.
		Unlike the English alphabet which almost always combines two sounds for each letter (stop and think about it; a letter such as "C" is actually pronounced as "s" and a long "e"), most letters of the Bulgarian alphabet have a single sound and for that reason are pronounced very short.
		The modern Bulgarian language, which is generally said to date from the 16th century, borrowed many words from Greek and Turkish during the period of Turkish domination; more recently it has borrowed words from Russian, French, and German.
	abvg.net /Cyrillic (2125 words)

	~dtrif/abv: Bulgarian alphabets
		In the light of this the arian (aryan) bishop Ulphila (Urphila), and his alphabet are ‘Gethic’.
		In the middle ages narratives the terms ‘Geths’ (Getas), ‘Goths’ (Gothos) or ‘Schyths' (Schitians) are frequently used for Thracs (Thracians), Slaves or Bulgarians.
		5) 'The Name-list of primery Bulgarian rulers’ (or 'Name-list of Bulgarian khans (kings)').
	theo.inrne.bas.bg /~dtrif/abv/BG_ABC.HTM (1725 words)

	PB Language - Peculiarities of PB Inscriptions
		Murfatlar was one of the Early Christian Bulgarian centres, it is not amazing therefore that most of the drawings illustrating the inscriptions represent saint.
		A specialized computer program with the code name HF was deployed for the decoding of the alphabet, it allowed the determination of the phonetic values of some rarely met characters.
		The alphabet brought by the Asparuh Bulgars is not Turkic.
	www.kroraina.com /pb_lang/pbl_2_3.html (1570 words)

	Alphabet
		In 862, Cyril and Methodius, two brothers from Thessalonica, invented the Glagolithic alphabet which was used in Bulgaria from the 9th to the 11th century.
		But the prototype of today's Bulgarian alphabet is the Cyrillic alphabet, assumed to have been composed by the pupils of Cyril and Methodius who were warmly welcomed in Bulgaria in the late 9th century.
		Twenty-four of the letters were identical with the letters of the Greek alphabet, but a number of letters were added for the characteristic sounds of the old Bulgarian language.
	www.travel-bulgaria.com /content/alphabet.shtml (174 words)

	BULGARIAN LANGUAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Bulgarian language is the earliest written Slavonic language.
		The Old Bulgarian language is a basis for the creation of Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Croatian variants and gained the significance of a universal literary Slavonic language.
		During the Bulgarian National Revival the modern Bulgarian literary language is formed.
	www.cl.bas.bg /Library/English/Ebez.html (172 words)

	Bulgarian history on stamps - Cyril and Methodius
		The invention and the dissemination of literacy and books in the spoken Old Bulgarian language is one of the most significant facts in the political and cultural history of Bulgaria and Eastern Europe.
		This event is associated with the names of Constantine Cyril the Philosopher (about 827-869) and his brother Methodius (about 815-885) who invented the earliest Slavonic alphabet and translated the principal books of the Christian doctrine from Greek into Old Bulgarian.
		That is why some historians assume some preliminary contacts between khan Boris and the two brothers and suppose that their activities have been intended since the very beginning namely for the Bulgarian state.
	stamps.dir.bg /history/cyril.htm (681 words)

	The Bulgarian Alphabet was written by Cyrill and Methodius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Bulgarian Alphabet was created in 855 by Cyrill and Methodius before the Moravian Mission.
		The Bulgarian Alphabet was used by other Slavic Nations.
		In the monotonous rhythm of the textual columns, copyists paid particular attention to the new paragraphs and by their ornamentation and the resulting decorative title-pieces they achieved aesthetic articulation of the textual units.
	www.macedoniainfo.com /initial_letters.htm (579 words)

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