Bulgarian
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- noun
- /bʌlˈɡɛr.i.ən/
:
búlgaro
- To make matters worse, neither of us speaks Bulgarian, a fact that will severely limit our employment prospects until we can learn the language.
- speak Bulgarian
- said in Bulgarian
Oh, another weird fun Bulgarian fact is that this means yes in Bulgarian, and this means no.
- Oh, another weird fun Bulgarian fact is that this means yes in Bulgarian, and this means no.
Examples
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On an average day in Istanbul, you could hear people speaking Greek, Turkish, Armenian, Persian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Albanian and Serbian.
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Speaking Bulgarian at the market helped me communicate better with the locals.
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I used to speak Bulgarian, but I'm an American citizen now.
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Scrabby trying to learn some Bulgarian phrases so we can be well accepted when we get there.
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My dear Mrs Vole, in our courts we accept the evidence of witnesses who speak only Bulgarian and who must have an interpreter.
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I've been baking American pancakes here in Bulgaria, and my recipe mentioned baking powder/bak pulver (Bulgarian).
Blog text (14) -
Much of the instruction was in English, taught by Yanks, Brits, and Bulgars, but some of the classes were given in Bulgarian and in French—all of them foreign languages to my Viennese ears and tongue.
Fiction book (1990) -
I enjoyed learning Bulgarian phrases when I visited Sofia last summer.
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My professor recommended that I study Bulgarian to better understand Slavic linguistics.
Synonyms
A language spoken mainly in Bulgaria that uses the Cyrillic alphabet
Compounds
- Literature
A very old Slavic language used in the 9th–11th centuries for early Bible translations
- Literature
A first Slavic written language used to translate the Bible and church texts in the Middle Ages
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bulgarian for the language comes from the Bulgars, the people who gave their name to Bulgaria, and the local Slavic speech later took that name too. So, Bulgarian means 'the language spoken in Bulgaria'.