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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> > I don't think non-native speakers "ran" German or Russian,
> > otherwise these languages would be very different today,
> > wouldn't they? I think it depends on the language, each
> > language's particular situation.
>
> Turkic-speakers 'ran' Bulgarian and Macedonian, and today they have
> no case system, unlike all other Slavic languages.
< SNIP >
> Torsten
>
are you sure that Turkic-speakers are these who influenced
Bulgarian language? So far I know, their influence on the Bulgarian
language is reduced just to words borrowing and eventually some
sufixes, mostly obsolete now in the language. I remember about
Bulgarian as beeing said, the Romance and "Thracic" should be these
who influenced the language. The Turkish Bulgars it is said to have
been assimilated and they should left just a few traces in the
language, most of them very disputet, even today. Beside of the old
Bulgars and beside of the Otoman Turks, the other Turkish speaking
people ( Avars, Cumans, etc) could not influence the language, at
least not in the manner of losing its flexion.
Alex