BULGARIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE AND ITS DIALECTS DURING THE SECOND AND THIRD DECADES OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Abstract

The following paper analyses the correlation between written Bulgarian language and Bulgarian dialects during the 2nd and 3rd decades of the 19th century. It studies the knowledge and personal observations of Bulgarian writers and journalists on the Bulgarian Dialect Division during the National Revival period and their first attempts to define the main bipartition and tripartition of the Bulgarian language teritory (into eastern and western dialects and into Moesian, Thracian and Macedonian dialects). Presented are linguistic ideas, concepts and efforts to codify a standard Bulgarian language on the basis of the 19th-century Bulgarian vernacular.