Bulgarian
The Slavic language that dropped the cases
It threw out the case system every other Slavic language guards, and grew a definite article instead.
- Nouns lost their cases, which is almost unheard of in Slavic. Word order and prepositions do the work now.
- The article is glued to the end of the noun: град city, градът the city.
- It has a mood for hearsay. The verb form itself tells you whether you saw the thing or were told about it, and you cannot avoid choosing.
- There is no infinitive. Where English says I want to go, Bulgarian says the equivalent of I want that I go.
- Cyrillic was assembled here in the ninth century, in the first Bulgarian empire, and travelled outwards from there.
The Slavic language that dropped its cases and grew articles instead, glued to the end of the noun. Slavic vocabulary with Balkan machinery: a linguist's puzzle you can actually speak. Cheapest EU country to live in, mountains and sea two hours apart, and choirs whose harmonies NASA put on the Voyager record.
Where Bulgarian parts company with the languages closest to it, and what each one would cost you from here.
Bulgarian vs Bosnian → Bulgarian vs Serbian → Bulgarian vs Croatian →
Reading about a language is not speaking it. These are the places I would go to find someone to speak Bulgarian with.
The Bulgarian Passepartout is not out yet
Five printed pages that carry you through the arrival. Leave your address and you hear about it first, and nothing else.
Leaving takes one click.
Short stories written inside a measured vocabulary, with the word lists and nothing invented for a textbook.