Talk:Bulgarians/@comment-4635992-20191126013349/@comment-203.78.119.178-20191126072115

Bulgarians speak Old Church Slavonic or Old Bulgarian as known Southern Slavic Language, while Slavs speak Eastern Slavic and Yes Bulgarians are slavic. Most Bulgarian speak Slavs only few different accent or dialect.

The Slavic languages are conventionally (that is, also on the basis of extralinguistic features) divided intro three subgroups: East, West, and South, which together constitute more than 20 languages. Of these, 10 have at least one million speakers and official status as the national languages of the countries in which they are predominantly spoken: Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian (of the East group), Polish, Czech and Slovak (of the West group) and Bulgarian and Macedonian (eastern dialects of the South group), and Serbo-Croatian and Slovene (western dialects of the South group).