Languages of Serbia - Hungarian Language, Serbo-Croatian, Russian Language, Romanian Language, Macedonian Language, Bulgarian Language (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 78. Chapters: Hungarian language, Serbo-Croatian, Russian language, Romanian language, Macedonian language, Bulgarian language, Serbian language, Romani language, Albanian language, Croatian language, Bosnian language, Ukrainian dialects, Banat Bulgarian dialect, List of Hungarian exonyms in Vojvodina, Vlach language in Serbia, Pannonian Rusyn language, German exonyms, Rusyn exonyms, Languages of Vojvodina, Yugoslav Sign Language, okac language, Slovak exonyms, Romanian exonyms. Excerpt: Bulgarian (, pronounced: ) is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group. Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article (see Balkan linguistic union), the lack of a verb infinitive, and the retention and further development of the Proto-Slavic verb system. Various evidential verb forms exist to express unwitnessed, retold, and doubtful action. Estimates of the number of people around the world who speak Bulgarian fluently range from about 9 to 12 million. The development of the Bulgarian language may be divided into several periods. The Codex Zographensis one of the oldest manuscripts in the Old Bulgarian language dated from the late 10th or early 11th centuryBulgarian was the first "Slavic" language attested in writing. As Slavic linguistic unity lasted into late antiquity, in the oldest manuscripts this language was initially referred to as, "the Slavic language." In the Middle Bulgarian period this name was gradually replaced by the name, the "Bulgarian language." In some cases, the name was used not only with regard to the contemporary Middle Bulgarian...