10 Interesting Facts about Bulgarian

9. In fact, it could be considered the original Slavic language

Since the oldest manuscripts date back to a time where the Slavic languages hadn’t really diverged yet, the name used for the language itself was actually “Slavic language”. This essentially lasted all the way through the development of Old Bulgarian to Middle Bulgarian. The first ones to draw a line between “Bulgarian” and “Slavonic” were clergy members working in what is today Macedonia.