Bulgarian – Streamlined transliteration system
Bulgarian virtual keyboard
The Bulgarian virtual keyboard allows you to enter characters with a click of your mouse. There’s no need to change your keyboard layout anymore. The transliteration of each supported character is displayed on the right side of the character. You can then directly transliterate your text from one script to the other according to the selected transliteration system.
Language overview
Bulgarian (български език, transliterated as balgarski ezik) is an Indo-European language from the Slavic linguistic group. Written in the Cyrillic alphabet, it is spoken in the Balkans and counts about 10 million speakers, mainly in Bulgaria where it is the official language.
Transliteration system: streamlined
The Streamlined System is the official Bulgarian system for the romanization of the Bulgarian language. It has been developed at the Department of Mathematical Logic at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and introduced in March 1995. It finally became part of Bulgarian law by way of the Transliteration Law passed in March 2009.
Specific rule
- An exception to the rules was introduced by the Bulgarian authorities in 2006, mandating the transliteration of word-final -ия as -ia rather than -iya in given names and geographical names (such as Ilia, Maria and Bulgaria, Sofia, Trakia etc.). In 2009, a law passed by the Bulgarian parliament made this system mandatory for all official use and some types of private publications, expanding also the application of the ia-exception rule to all -ия in word-final position.
Other transliteration systems for Bulgarian
The other currently supported transliteration systems for Bulgarian are: ALA-LC, Andreychin (UN), BGN/PCGN, Danchev, and ISO 9.
Books
Intensive Bulgarian: A Textbook & Reference Grammar (Vol 1)
by Ronelle Alexander, Olga M. Mladenova, editors University of Wisconsin Press (2000)
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Intensive Bulgarian: A Textbook & Reference Grammar (Vol 2)
by Ronelle Alexander, Olga M. Mladenova, editors University of Wisconsin Press (2000)
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A comprehensive Bulgarian grammar for foreign learners
by Lily Earl, editors Daniela Ubenova (2000)
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Le bulgare de poche
by Elena Engelbrecht, editors Assimil (2009)
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Parlons bulgare
by Margarita Vassileva, editors L’Harmattan (1996)
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Dicionário Editora de Português-Búlgaro
by Margarita Drenska, editors Porto (2006)
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Bulgarian links
Other supported languages
The other supported languages are: Abkhaz, Adyghe, Altai, Armenian (eastern, classical), Armenian (western), Azerbaijani (Azeri), Bashkir, Belarusian, Carrier, Cherokee, Chuvash, Erzya, Georgian, Greek, Ingush, Inuktitut, Japanese, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Moldovan, Old Church Slavonic, Ossetian, Russian, Serbian, Tamazight, Tigrinya, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Vai, and Yakut.