Indo-European family

Middle Bulgarian

c. 1100 CE – 1400 CE Extinct

Middle Bulgarian (c. 1100 CE – 1400 CE) is an extinct Indo-European language. It has 1 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Slavic → Proto-South Slavic → Old Church Slavonic → Middle Bulgarian.

See Middle Bulgarian on the interactive map

Language of the Second Bulgarian Empire, showing the loss of case endings and other Balkan Sprachbund features.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Slavicc. 200 BCE – 600 CE
  3. Proto-South Slavicc. 600 CE – 900 CE
  4. Old Church Slavonic862 CE – 1100 CE
  5. Middle Bulgarianc. 1100 CE – 1400 CE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 2

Also descended from Old Church Slavonic.

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