Some facts about Bulgarian

THE BULGARIAN LANGUAGE is a language of Bulgaria.
Population: 7,986,000 in Bulgaria, 85% of the population (1986). Population total all countries: 9,000,000 (1999 WA).

Also spoken in Canada, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Moldova, Romania, Turkey (Europe), Ukraine, USA, Yugoslavia.
Alternate names: BALGARSKI
Dialects: PALITYAN (PALITIANI, BOGOMIL).
Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, South, Eastern.
Palityan is functionally intelligible with Standard Bulgarian.

Also spoken in:
Greece (30,000 (1998 Greek Helsinki Monitor)).
Dialects: POMAK (POMAKCI, POMAKIKA).
Pomak is close to Serbian and Bulgarian; geographical dialect shading toward each. Bilingualism in Turkish, Greek. They speak Pomak at home. Also referred to locally as 'Macedonian' and 'Vlach'. The term 'Vlach' is applied variously to varieties of Bulgarian, Romani, and Romanian in Romania, Greece, Albania, and Yugoslavia. Many Greek loan words and others from the dead language, Thraco-Illyrian. Viewed as Turks in Greece. Moldova (361,000 (1979 census), 68% speak it as mother tongue).

Romania (10,439 (1966 census)).
Dialects PALITYAN (PALITIANI, BOGOMIL).
The Palityan dialect is apparently intelligible with other Bulgarian dialects. In Romania it is a recognized minority language.

Turkey (270,000, including refugees from Bulgaria (1993 Johnstone)).

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