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Bulgarian language

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Genealogy

Indo-European → Slavic → South Slavic → Southeastern Slavic

Geography

Main country: Bulgaria (show on the map)

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Map designer: Yuri Koryakov

Identifiers

Features

Phonemic structure

[A‑1] Number of degrees of vowel height Two [A‑1‑1]
[A‑2] Vowel height degrees Narrow and non-narrow [A‑2‑7]
[A‑4] Degrees of vowel backness Front, central and back [A‑4‑3]
[A‑5] Presence of length degrees Absent [A‑5‑2]
[A‑7] Presence of vowel opposition in labialization Absent [A‑7‑2]
[A‑9] Presence of vowel opposition in nasalization Absent [A‑9‑2]
[A‑11] Vowel opposition in pharyngealization No vowel opposition in pharyngealization [A‑11‑1]
[A‑12] Vowel opposition in ATR No vowel opposition in ATR [A‑12‑1]
[A‑13] Diphthongs and triphthongs No diphthongs and triphthongs [A‑13‑1]
[A‑15] Inventory of obstruents by laryngeal features Opposition by presence and absence of voice [A‑15‑1]
[A‑16] Inventory of obstruents by manner of articulation Plosives, affricates and fricatives [A‑16‑3]
[A‑17] Inventory of obstruents by place of articulation Labial, coronal, palatal and velar/uvular [A‑17‑3]
[A‑18] Inventory of labial obstruents by place of articulation Bilabial and labiodental [A‑18‑2]
[A‑19] Inventory of coronal obstruents by place of articulation Dental and alveopalatal [A‑19‑10]
[A‑20] Inventory of guttural obstruents by place of articulation Velar [A‑20‑1]
[A‑22] Additional articulatory oppositions of obstruents By palatalization [A‑22‑3]
[A‑23] Inventory of sonorants by manner of articulation Nasal, liquid, vibrant and glide [A‑23‑6]
[A‑24] Inventory of sonorants by place of articulation Labial, coronal and dorsal [A‑24‑14]
[A‑25] Additional articulatory oppositions of sonorants By palatalization [A‑25‑3]

Prosodic phenomena

[B‑2] Prosodic unit carrier Syllable [B‑2‑1]
[B‑3] Character of prosodic unit by its choice Phonological [B‑3‑1]
[B‑4] Stress type (quality characteristics) Dynamic [B‑4‑1]
[B‑5] Stress fixedness Fixed [B‑5‑2]
[B‑15] Length character Non-phonological [B‑15‑2]
[B‑16] Target of vowel harmony Phoneme [B‑16‑1]
[B‑17] Feature of vowel harmony Backness and height [B‑17‑6]
[B‑18] Trigger of vowel harmony Final syllable vowel, or first vowel of word, or stressed syllable of stem [B‑18‑7]

Syllable

[C‑1] Syllable onset Most syllables have a non-null onset [C‑1‑2]
[C‑2] Syllable coda Both null and non-null coda possible [C‑2‑4]

Phonologic structure and phenomena

[D‑7] Types of differences between content and function words Differences in accentuation [D‑7‑2]
[D‑7] Types of differences between content and function words Differences in syllable structure [D‑7‑3]
[D‑9] Types of differences between native and borrowed words Differences in phonetic structure [D‑9‑1]
[D‑9] Types of differences between native and borrowed words Differences in accentuation [D‑9‑2]
[D‑9] Types of differences between native and borrowed words Differences in syllable structure [D‑9‑3]
[D‑11] Types of differences between roots and affixes Accentual differences [D‑11‑2]
[D‑12] Functional type of alternations Accompanying [D‑12‑2]
[D‑13] Type of altenations Vowel, consonant, mixed, and phoneme complex alternations [D‑13‑10]

Morphological type of language

[E‑1] Type of language by type of morpheme combination in a word Fusional with some agglutinative features [E‑1‑4]
[E‑2] Fusional type features Phonetically unconditioned stem alternations and cumulative affixes [E‑2‑7]
[E‑3] Agglutinative type features No phonetic alternations in morphemes, basic form bare stem [E‑3‑7]
[E‑4] Type of language by degree of morpheme cohesion Synthetic with elements of analytism [E‑4‑6]

Nominal classifications

[F‑1] Number of agreement classes Three [F‑1‑3]
[F‑2] Morphological expression of agreement classes Articles and nominal and verb flections [F‑2‑11]
[F‑3] Syntactic expression of agreement classes Adjectives, numerals, pronouns, and participles [F‑3‑16]
[F‑5] Attributive agreement in gender Only in singular [F‑5‑2]
[F‑6] Agreement of cardinal numerals in gender For "one", "two" [F‑6‑4]
[F‑7] Nouns classifying categories Person/non-person [F‑7‑2]
[F‑8] Opposition by person/non-person Morphological and syntactic [F‑8‑6]
[F‑9] Expression of animacy/inanimacy Lexical [F‑9‑1]

Number

[G‑1] Number in nouns Singular and plural [G‑1‑1]
[G‑2] Single number marking Unmarked [G‑2‑2]
[G‑4] Agreement in number Predicative and attributive [G‑4‑4]
[G‑6] Numeral system Decimal [G‑6‑1]

Case meanings

[H‑1] Number of noun cases One-two [H‑1‑1]
[H‑2] Subject and object marking Subject, direct and indirect object personal pronouns, pronominal reprise, prepositions, verbal agreement, and word order [H‑2‑23]
[H‑9] Secondary cases Absent [H‑9‑2]

Verbal categories

[I‑4] Voice forms coincidence Absent [I‑4‑1]
[I‑5] Tense forms Past [I‑5‑1]
[I‑5] Tense forms Present [I‑5‑2]
[I‑5] Tense forms Future [I‑5‑3]
[I‑6] Aspect and tense expression Syncretic [I‑6‑2]
[I‑7] Expression of tense categories Auxiliary verbs, affixes and function words [I‑7‑5]
[I‑8] Syncretic expression of several verb meanings Person, number, tense, aspect, and modality (mood) [I‑8‑17]
[I‑9] Marking of person in present tense verbs In singular and plural [I‑9‑3]
[I‑10] Transitivity marker Absent [I‑10‑1]

Deictic categories

[J‑2] Expression of deictic categories Demonstrative pronouns and pronominal adverbs [J‑2‑40]
[J‑3] Function words expressing spatial orientation of action Prepositions [J‑3‑3]
[J‑4] Content words expressing spatial orientation of action Pronouns and adverbs [J‑4‑6]
[J‑5] Morphological expression of (in)definiteness Noun affixes [J‑5‑2]
[J‑9] Negation marker position Preposition [J‑9‑3]

Parts of speech and inflection

[K‑1] Personal pronouns inflection Pronominal inflection type [K‑1‑3]
[K‑2] Articles Only definite [K‑2‑3]
[K‑4] Article place Postposition [K‑4‑2]
[K‑5] Position of article in noun phrase Single article preceding the phrase [K‑5‑1]
[K‑6] Grammar categories of article Definiteness [K‑6‑2]
[K‑7] Number of conjugation types Two types of conjugation [K‑7‑2]
[K‑8] Verb agreement types Subject [K‑8‑2]
[K‑9] Agreement categories expressed in participle Gender and number [K‑9‑6]
[K‑10] Tense expressed by participle Present and past [K‑10‑6]
[K‑11] Adverb grammar categories Degrees of comparison [K‑11‑2]
[K‑12] Agreement categories expressed in adjective Gender, number and definiteness [K‑12‑11]
[K‑13] Cumulative expression of several categories in adjective Gender and number [K‑13‑5]
[K‑14] Attribute agreement of adjectives Only in preposition [K‑14‑3]
[K‑15] Attributive agreement types In number [K‑15‑2]
[K‑15] Attributive agreement types In gender [K‑15‑4]
[K‑15] Attributive agreement types In (in)definiteness [K‑15‑8]
[K‑17] Cumulative expression of several categories in noun Gender / agreement class, number and case [K‑17‑11]
[K‑19] Word form model Prefixal-suffixal [K‑19‑1]

Word formation

[L‑1] Word formation means Affixation, conversion, compounding, abbreviation, reduplication, and clipping [L‑1‑26]
[L‑2] Derivation affixes Prefixes, suffixes, and interfixes [L‑2‑16]
[L‑3] Stems relations in stem compounding Apposition and coordination [L‑3‑4]

Simple sentence

[M‑1] Morphosyntactic alignment Accusative [M‑1‑3]
[M‑2] Word order fixedness Non-fixed [M‑2‑2]
[M‑3] Dominant word order SVO/ OVS [M‑3‑9]
[M‑4] Order of nouns and its modifier Modifier precedes noun [M‑4‑1]
[M‑5] Pro-drop Possible [M‑5‑1]

Complex sentence

[N‑3] Dependent clause predicate Both finite and non-finite forms possible [N‑3‑3]
[N‑4] Compound sentence types Subordination and compounding [N‑4‑4]
[N‑5] Compound sentence syndesis and asyndeton Both syndesis and asyndeton possible [N‑5‑3]

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