Bulgarians

Bulgarians are a South Slavic^[4][5][6] people from southeast Europe. There are around 7.3 million Bulgarian nationals.^[7] The Bulgarians speak the Bulgarian language and most of them live in Bulgaria. There is also a large diaspora of Bulgarians in Germany, Ukraine, Spain, UK and USA.

Bulgarians

българи balgari
Total population
c. 7-8 million[1][2][3]
Regions with significant populations
Bulgaria 5,500,000 (2021)
Germany	410,885[

Culture

Language

The Bulgarian language is a South Slavic language that is very similar to the Macedonian language. It is spoken by around 9 million people.^[8][9] There are some notable differences in the Bulgarian language that set it apart from other Slavic languages. For example, Bulgarian lost almost all of the noun cases. The language also developed a definite article.

The Bulgarian language is written with the Cyrillic script. The Cyrillic script was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire,^[10] and is now used in 12 other languages.

Religion

Bulgarian Orthodoxy has been the prominent religion in Bulgaria since 870 AD. There are also a small amount of Bulgarians who converted to Islam during Ottoman rule. Majority of the ethnic bulgarian muslims are Pomak.^[11]

Bulgarian folk dancers in a national costume.