Talk:History of the Bulgarian language

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Prehistoric Bulgarian

I seriously doubt the competence of the scholars that discussed and agreed upon this:

prehistoric period (from the time of the settlement of the Bulgarian Slavs on the Balkans until the late 9th century);

Any well educated historian and linguist will agree that before the Bulgars came on the Balkans spoke on Bulgar language (we have an article about it) and it was a typical Turkic langauge. Bulgars became Bulgarians (somehow), started speaking Slavic and Bulgarian was born in 18/19 century. The modern Bulgarian is a typical Slavic. Explain me how you add that the typical Indo-European Slavic Bulgarian evolved from typical Altaic Turkic Bulgar? I do not see the logic, sorry. It's different if you say that modern Bulgarians are decedents of the Bulgars, but when the languages are concerned it's messed up a lot. We even do not have evidence of the language of the Slavs up until 9 or 10 century. How they spoke in 5, 6, 7, 8 centuries? I suggest this sentence be removed. If I am wrong, just explain to me please. --MacedonianBoy (talk) 10:18, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The origin of the Slavs is more obscure than the origin of Bulgarians. There are historical sources, mostly Byzantine, of existence of various tribes, the majority of them descendants of old Thracian and Illirian tribes. Their territory extended as north as Baltic sea and as east as the Urals. Many of these were named Slavic in connection with the doctrine of pan-Slavism expounded by Russian scholars in 18-19 centuries, supported by some Czech, Croat, Slovenian, and Serbian scholars and politicians. Rather than explaining how Bulgars became Bulgarians (somehow?), better educated historians find more and more evidence that both the so-called Slavs and the so-called Bulgars have always been on the Balkan Peninsula as members of various Thracian and Illirian tribes. Lantonov (talk) 08:55, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Illustration "Old Bulgarian Alphabet.png"

I need expert help here: Shouldn't the first line of this illustration read БЪЛГАРЬСКА instead of БЛЪГАРЬСКА? Love —LiliCharlie (talk) 04:44, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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