2. Do you know that:
The Bulgarian language
is Indo-European
language of South
Slavic group of
languages.
3. Bulgarian was the
first Slavic
language attested
in writing.
The development of
the Bulgarian
language may be
divided into several
periods:
4. Prehistoric period (until 9 century)
It occurred between the Slavonic
migration to eastern Balkans and the
mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius
to Great Moravia in the 860s.
5. Old Bulgarian (9th to 12th century)
The beginning of the Old Bulgarian language
is placed with the creation (862 or 863) of
the alphabet (Glagolitic, also known as
Glagolitsa) by Saints Cyril and Methodius.
6. Old Bulgarian (9th to 12th century)
In the late 9th century another Bulgarian alphabet
was established - the Cyrillic alphabet. The Old
Bulgarian language is the basis for the
establishment of Russian, Serbian, Slovenian and
Croatian alphabets.
7. Middle Bulgarian (12th to 15th
century)
It is a literary norm that
evolved from the
earlier Old Bulgarian.
It was a language of
rich literary activity
and the official
administration
language of the
Second Bulgarian
Empire.
8. Modern Bulgarian – dates from the 16th
century onwards.
Saint Paisius of Hilendar was a key
Bulgarian National Revival figure.
He is most famous for being the
author of Istoriya
Slavyanobolgarskaya.
