I want to know the answer to the following question:
What do Bulgarian linguists regard the Macedonian language as?
All the background I'm provided with is that "Nevertheless, before the establishment of a literary standard of Macedonian in 1944, in most sources in and out of Bulgaria before the Second World War, the southern Slavonic dialect continuum covering the area of today's Republic of Macedonia were referred to as Bulgarian dialects.". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: no