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Languages close to the Bulgarian - interesting facts and history

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Languages close to the Bulgarian - interesting facts and history
The history of languages reflects the history of peoples who speak them. They change and develop in relation to the conditions in which their carriers live. The mixing of people also leads to the mixing of languages, exchange of words and grammatical structures. And it's just these changes that prove a language is alive. What is the way of Bulgarian and which languages are closest to it today, we will try to briefly tell in the next lines. 

Slavic languages

According to modern language classifications, Slavic languages are part of the large Indo-European language family. Bulgarian is Slavic and belongs to the section of South Slavic languages. It is divided into two groups - East and West.

Short history of Slavic languages

It will be impossible to go into detail for each of the sections of Slavic languages. We will take a closer look at the two groups in the South Slavic languages, which are the ones closest to the Bulgarian language today. 
    1. Western Group It includes Slovenian, Serbo Croatian, Serbian, Montenegrin, Croatia, Bosnian.
    2. Eastern Group It includes the Bulgarian, modern Bulgarian, Macedonian and Banat Bulgarian languages.
The Bulgarian is dying out of language and its most direct successor is the modern Bulgarian. Here are the latest reforms that shaped the image of the language we know today: - In the period after the Liberation, he has undergone several spelling reforms . . Post-Freedden spelling, Drynovski spelling, Omarchev spelling and spelling reform of BZNC; - The latest reform is what is called the Father-Frontian spelling reform since 9 September 1944. Despite the disputes in recent years, Macedonian is recognised as an official language. But it is also a fact that by 1945 he was quite officially a dialect of the Bulgarian. This can also be seen as direct and relatively modern evidence of how languages reflect the history of their peoples. And despite the time during which Bulgarians and Macedonians consider themselves two separate people, not one nation, the representatives of both nations still have no particular difficulty in understanding their languages.  The Banat Bulgarian language uses a written text based on the Croatian version of Latina. Coded in 1866. from the Vinga Teachers' Society and keeps many ancient forms of language spoken in Bulgaria. Despite the proximity of both languages, it's purely historical that we no longer know Banatski. So let's illustrate this with a small example: “Idin denj dáskalćata ij pukázala na dicáta idno svetiče sas idna familija.” " One day the teacher showed the children a picture of a family. "

Russian

He is also part of the family of Slavic languages but falls into the Eastern Slavic group. We give it a special place because the proximity and similarities between Bulgarian and Russian are obvious, not less than the proximity of our language to South Slavic. Perhaps the most curious detail about the links between the two languages is the fact that by the end of the 17th century, the old Bulgarian language was an official language in Moscow's principality, which is practically the founder of today's Russia. It functions there in his Russian version, but this does not change the fact that the old Bulgarian has a stronger influence on Russian than on other East Slavic languages.

The wealth of the Bulgarian language

This is indeed a subject that cannot be exhausted, especially within such an article. Languages can enter into details of the vast field of Bulgarian grammar, morphology and syntax. linguists should bring examples of the richness and abundance of Bulgarian language, its color acquired by mixing domestic and busy words in his long history. If we look at it from a more entertaining angle, its uniqueness can only be collected in one example: The word "spoke" which has the amazing ability to substitute every part of speech. And everything said will be true and certainly not comprehensive. Therefore we offer you a quote from the prominent Bulgarian literary professor. Alexander Balabanov, who can serve as a wonderful summary of the topic:  “I know a language in this world. I've translated Omira, Shexpira, Heine, Platona, Goethe, the far-fetched Sophocles, the scary Eshill. And I never lacked Bulgarian words and forms to convey exactly what I felt in the original, in the basic Greek text itself. And as I write in my prefaces, for example, to the impossible Aristophanes. If their translation is bad somewhere, it is not because the Bulgarian language is not enough or is rude and weak but because I, the translator, am weak.

Is Bulgarian Really Hard to Learn

The answer to this question depends on a number of factors. Perhaps the representatives of a people whose language is also Slavic will learn Bulgarian quite easily. But if you're French, German or Chinese, for example, it's going to be quite difficult. Besides different grammar and vocabulary, each language has its own specific sounds and sound combinations. It is part of the main difficulty when you learn a language from a distant language family. It takes time and effort to detect and understand these sounds correctly and to instruct your speech machine to produce them. If you want to know more about the things that make it difficult for foreigners who want to learn Bulgarian, you can see here: https://omegals.bg/kak-zvuchi-bulgarskiqt-ezik-na-chuzdencite/ But as we have said more than once, there are no impossible things. It is important the motivation and the right steps you will take if you want to learn Bulgarian. One of the best ways is by taking a course at
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