Turkic lexical elements in the Bulgarian language
Journal: Litteraria Copernicana
Year: 2020

language. "By Turkic lexical elements we mean all the originally Turkic words that entered the Bulgarian language from any Turkic language, and words of any other origin (Arabic, Persian, Greek, Italian, etc.), that have entered the Bulgarian language through the Turkic languages" (Czumbaowa 1986: 8). Famous Bulgarian scholar Samuel Bernstein points out that the beginning of a serious study of Turkism in the Bulgarian language was set by Franz Xaver Ritter von Miklosich with his fundamental rese