  BulgarianLanguage
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Sigma KEE - BulgarianLanguage
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bulgarian language
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The BulgarianLanguage is a SoutheasternSlavicLanguage of Bulgaria. SIL code: BLG. ISO 639-1: bg. ISO 639-2: bul. Population: 7,986,000 in Bulgaria, 85% of the population (1986). Population total all countries: 9,000,000 (1999 WA). Region: Also spoken in Canada, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Moldova, Romania, Turkey (Europe), Ukraine, USA, Yugoslavia. Alternate names: BALGARSKI. Dialects: PALITYAN (PALITIANI, BOGOMIL). Comments: Palityan is functionally intelligible with Standard Bulgarian. The Sopa are of Petecheneg origin and speak Bulgarian. National language. Grammar. SVO. Christian. Bible 1864-1923. Also spoken in: Greece. (Language name: BULGARIAN.) Population: 30,000 in Greece (1998 Greek Helsinki Monitor). Dialects: POMAK (POMAKCI, POMAKIKA). Comments: 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. Muslim. Bible 1864-1923. Also spoken in: Moldova. (Language name: BULGARIAN.) Population: 361,000 in Moldova (1979 census), 68% speak it as mother tongue. Comments: Christian. Bible 1864-1923. Romania. (Language name: BULGARIAN.) Population: 10,439 (1966 census). Dialects: PALITYAN (PALITIANI, BOGOMIL). Comments: The Palityan dialect is apparently intelligible with other Bulgarian dialects. In Romania it is a recognized minority language. Christian. Bible 1864-1923. Also spoken in: Turkey (Europe). (Language name: BULGARIAN.) Population: 270,000 in Turkey, including refugees from Bulgaria (1993 Johnstone). Alternate names: POMAK. Dialects: POMAK. Comments: 93% bilingual in Turkish. Spoken by Muslim Pomaks in Turkey and Greece. Sunni Muslim. Bible 1864-1923. Also spoken in: Yugoslavia. (Language name: BULGARIAN.) Comments: Catholic Bulgarians are in Yugoslav and Romanian Banat. Bible 1864-1923.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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| Instances | content bearing physical | Any Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition. |
| | entity | The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology. |
| | human language | The subclass of Languages used by Humans. |
| | indo european language | There are 433 languages categorized as an IndoEuropeanLanguage, forming a major family of the world's languages and including many of the most familiar languages of Europe and South Asia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | language | A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people. |
| | language family | A LanguageFamily is group of SpokenHumanLanguages related through descent from a common ancestral language. (reference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family) |
| | linguistic expression | This is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words. |
| | natural language | The subclass of HumanLanguages which are not designed and which evolve from generation to generation. This Class includes all of the national languages, e.g. English, Spanish, Japanese, etc. Note that this class includes dialects of natural languages. |
| | physical | An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time. |
| | slavic language | A SlavicLanguage is any of 18 closely related IndoEuropeanLanguages spoken in central and eastern Europe.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | south slavic language | Of the 18 SlavicLanguages, six are classified as a SouthSlavicLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | southeastern slavic language | Of the six SouthSlavicLanguages, three are classified as a SoutheasternSlavicLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
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