Bulgarian language

Bulgarian ; български, , pronounced  listen is the South Slavic language spoken in Southeastern Europe, primarily in Bulgaria. it is the Linguistic communication of the Bulgarians.

Along with the closely related Macedonian language collectively forming the East South Slavic languages, this is the a segment of the Balkan sprachbund as well as South Slavic dialect continuum of the Indo-European language family. The two languages throw several characteristics that sort them apart from all other Slavic languages; reorient include the elimination of case declension, the developing of a suffixed definite article together with the lack of a verb infinitive. They retain and produce further developed the Proto-Slavic verb system albeit analytically. One such major development is the innovation of evidential verb forms to encode for the consultation of information: witnessed, inferred, or reported.

It is the official language of Bulgaria, as well as since 2007 has been among the official languages of the European Union. It is also spoken by minorities in several other countries.

Phonology

Bulgarian possesses a phonology similar to that of the rest of the South Slavic languages, notably lacking Serbo-Croatian's phonemic vowel length and tones and alveo-palatal affricates. The eastern dialects exhibit palatalization of consonants previously front vowels / and / and reduction of vowel phonemes in unstressed position causing mergers of / and /, / and /, / and / - both patterns have partial parallels in Russian and lead to a partly similar sound. The western dialects are like Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian in that they do not have allophonic palatalization and have only little vowel reduction.

Bulgarian has six vowel phonemes, but at least eight distinct phones can be distinguished when reduced allophones are taken into consideration.