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Bulgarian Translations - Background to Bulgarian Translation
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Bulgar (also Bolgar and Proto-Bulgarian) was the language of the Bulgars, now extinct. The classification of Bulgar is unclear. There are various suppositions about its origins. The linguistic theory is that it was a Turkic language. Some Bulgarian historians have recently linked it to the Pamiri languages of the Iranian language group instead, though the inscriptions show the language to be Turkic and clearly related to Chuvash. Bulgar is assumed to have been used in Great Bulgaria, later in Volga Bulgaria, and in Danubian Bulgaria. The language became extinct in Danubian Bulgaria in the 9th century as the Bulgar nobility became gradually Slavicized through intermarriages with the Slavic majority there.
The population of Volga Bulgaria spoke a Turkic language, known as Bulgar, which is a variety of the language of the Danubian Bulgarians. That language persisted until the 13th or the 14th century. It adopted a number of words and constructions from the Kypchak language and ultimately gave rise to the Chuvash language. Chuvash is classified as the only surviving member of a separate "Bulgar" branch of the Turkic languages, characterized by sound correspondences such as Bulgar r versus Common Turkic z and Bulgar l versus Common Turkic š. Likewise, the Old Tatar language, despite not belonging to the same branch as Chuvash and Bulgar, is believed to have absorbed elements of the Bulgar language; thus, the language spoken by the present-day Volga Tatars would represent a mixture of Kypchak and Bulgar.
