Old Bulgarian
Noun
Meaning
the Slavic language into which the Bible was translated in the 9th century
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In some cases, the name языкъ блъгарьскъ main was used not only with regard to the contemporary Middle Bulgarian language of the copyist but also to the period of Old Bulgarian.
The alphabet known as Glagolitsa (Glagolitic script) was the first Old Bulgarian and Slavic alphabet.
The Codex Zographensis is one of the oldest manuscripts in the Old Bulgarian language dated from the late 10th or early 11th century Bulgarian was the first "Slavic" language attested in writing.
The historical development of the Bulgarian language can be described as a transition from a highly synthetic language (Old Bulgarian) to a typical analytic language (Modern Bulgarian) with Middle Bulgarian as a midpoint in this transition.
The origin of the word is the Old Church Slavonic ( Old Bulgarian ) rabota "servitude" ("work" in contemporary Bulgarian and Russian ), which in turn comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *orbh-.
Today one difference between Bulgarian dialects in the country and literary spoken Bulgarian is the significant presence of Old Bulgarian words and even word forms in the latter.