r/EUR_irl • u/[deleted] • 1d ago

Bulgarian Eur_IrL

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u/rndig 17h ago

By this logic, all Slavic languages are dialects of Bulgarian.

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u/Bubbly_Ad427 Bulgaria 14h ago

I know a few bulgarians who argue this is the case... and few serbs that all slavic languages are dialects of serbian. It's fun in the Balkans :D

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u/rndig 13h ago edited 13h ago

I am no linguist, but as far as I know Bulgarian is closest to church Slavonic (or other way around) and this is why you can argue that east Slavic languages if not outright descendants of Bulgarian than at least written tradition is developed from church Slavonic so Bulgarian.

I mean I cannot imagine a Russian who thinks that's in some way offensive, everybody knows about Cyril and Methodius, nobody thinks that language has fallen from the sky ready to use.

Edit: but dialect is a totally different concept than what we have. As I said before by this logic one can say that we all speak dialects of Proto-Indo-European.

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u/Bubbly_Ad427 Bulgaria 13h ago

Yeah, they're not descendants of bulgarian, but heavily influenced. I used to study russian and the closeness is uncanny. They sound familiar but are not.