How does Bulgarian sound to you?

[kvarc]

The Western outlands were in Serbia 93 years, so it's normal for you to understand it easier. The situation was the same with the Macedonian language. Macedonia was in Serbia and Yugoslavia since 1912, so it was influenced by the Serbo-Croatian language, so that's why you understand it better.

The Bulgarian langauge is becoming more Eastern, no way it's becoming like Serbian. Sofia can't have many influences on the language, cuz 2/3 of the citizen are people from all over Bulgaria, the native population of Sofia is 50 000 i believe.

I don`t know is it via Sofia it`s my guess, the article was printed in some Bulgarian newspaper published in English. It`s the same with Belegrade everybody who comes there speaks "belegrads language" , no metter were are they from , it`s the thing with capital cites

Bosilegrad and Dimotrovgrad are here long, but Bulgarians over there speak Bulgarian which is part of the same dialects as spoken in Bulgaria, across the border. And for Macedonia, things are different as 100 years ago, but not that much necceserly different, for instance north Macedonian dialects still sound very Serbian,lots linguist consider them Serbian, and for instace eastern dialects of Macedonia still sound very Bulgarian, as they did before

[Midori]

and for instace eastern dialects of Macedonia still sound very Bulgarian

They are weirdos, the real Macedonian is the one spoken in Skopje

[Archduke]

I don`t know is it via Sofia it`s my guess, the article was printed in some Bulgarian newspaper published in English. It`s the same with Belegrade everybody who comes there speaks "belegrads language" , no metter were are they from , it`s the thing with capital cites

Bosilegrad and Dimotrovgrad are here long, but Bulgarians over there speak Bulgarian which is part of the same dialects as spoken in Bulgaria, across the border. And for Macedonia, things are different as 100 years ago, but not that much necceserly different, for instance north Macedonian dialects still sound very Serbian,lots linguist consider them Serbian, and for instace eastern dialects of Macedonia still sound very Bulgarian, as they did before

Bulgarians in Bosilegrad and Tsaribrod (Dimitrovgrad) don't speak clear Bulgarian, like they did before 93 years, unfortunately.
Before i was registered in the official forum of Bosilegrad.
God, they say to Bulgaria Bugarska!!! Also young Bulgarians there learn Bulgarian only in 1-4th grade for 3-4 hours in week.

Before 120 years there was no Serb majority in Eastern Serbia, what remains for Northern Macedonia?

[memobekes]

..we have much more common words with serbo-croatian and slovenian

And I wouldn't expect it to be any different. They are Southern Slavonic languages and share a hefty amount of common words in their lexicons, respectively.

But morphologically and phonetically, Bulgarian sounds distinct from Serbo-Croatian. I believe we can agree on this.

[kvarc]

Bulgarians in Bosilegrad and Tsaribrod (Dimitrovgrad) don't speak clear Bulgarian, like they did before 93 years, unfortunately.
Before i was registered in the official forum of Bosilegrad.
God, they say to Bulgaria Bugarska!!! Also young Bulgarians there learn Bulgarian only in 1-4th grade for 3-4 hours in week.

Before 120 years there was no Serb majority in Eastern Serbia, what remains for Northern Macedonia?

yes there were, both in Eastern Serbia and Northern Macedonia, Even today there are lot`s of Serbs in Northern Macedonia, well at least those who escaped assimilation

[kvarc]

Bulgarians in Bosilegrad and Tsaribrod (Dimitrovgrad) don't speak clear Bulgarian, like they did before 93 years, unfortunately.

they never spoke it, they were always transitional dialects

[Archduke]

yes there were, both in Eastern Serbia and Northern Macedonia, Even today there are lot`s of Serbs in Northern Macedonia, well at least those who escaped assimilation

These Serbs in Northern Macedonia are not the native population and are relatively new. They came there in yugo era mainly in the capital Skopje. It will sound rude, but there are many assimilated Bulgarians in Eastern Serbia. Look at these maps, you can clearly see that the territories i mentioned were pred. non-serbian.









As you can see all these maps are from foreign authors

[Archduke]

they never spoke it, they were always transitional dialects

Maybe you are right, but they never called България Bugarska.

[Gospodine]

One of my uncles, who's half-Serb and comes from Pirot (right on the Bulgarian border), met a family friend of ours who is Bulgarian.

They managed to understand each other just fine.

[rashka]

But morphologically and phonetically, Bulgarian sounds distinct from Serbo-Croatian.

Yes. Morphologically and phonetically they are different. Phonologically they are similar.