Bulgar language

Not to be confused with the Bulgarian language.

Bulgar (also known as Bulghar, Bolgar, or Bolghar) is an extinct Oghur Turkic language spoken by the Bulgars.

Bulgar
Region	From Central Asia to the Pontic–Caspian steppe, the Volga and the Danube and Southern Italy (Molise, Campania)
Ethnicity	Bulgars
Extinct	By the 9th or 10th centuries on the Danube and by the 14th century in the Volga region
Language family	Turkic Oghuric Bulgar
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xbo
Linguist List	xbo
Glottolog	bolg1250

The name came from the Bulgars, a tribe that established the Bulgar state known as Old Great Bulgaria in the mid-7th century, which became the Danubian Bulgaria by the 680s.^[1][2]