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| Selected languages: | Bulgarian |
| UPSID number: | 2009 |
| Alternate name(s): | N/A |
| Classification: | Indo-European, Slavic |
| The languages has | 42 segments |
| Frequency index: | N/A |
| Sounds: | [pʲ] [bʲ] [p] [b] [t̪ʲ] [d̪ʲ] [t̪] [d̪] [kʲ] [ɡʲ] [k] [ɡ] [s̪ʲ] [z̪ʲ] [s̪] [z̪] [ʃ] [ʒ] [fʲ] [vʲ] [f] [v] [x] [t̪s̪ʲ] [t̪s̪] [tʃ] [dʒ] [rʲ] [r] [l̪ʲ] [l̪ˠ] [j] [mʲ] [m] [nʲ] [n] [i] [u] [ɘ] [ɛ] [ɔ] [ä] |
| Comments: | Bulgarian is primarily spoken in Bulgaria. |
| Sources: | Aronson, H.I. 1968. Bulgarian Inflectional Morphophonology. Mouton, The Hague. Bidwell, C. 1968. The stress patterns of the noun in Bulgarian. Studies in Linguistics 20: 41-47. Klagstad, H. 1958. The phonemic system of colloquial standard Bulgarian. Slavic and East European Journal 16: 42-54. Scatton, E.A. 1983. A Reference Grammar of Modern Bulgarian. Slavica Publishers, Inc., Columbus, Ohio. |