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Bulgarian Language in New Places Worldwide

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Bearing in mind the number of Bulgarians in the language continuum (the language of Bulgarians in the old historical-geographic regions, Moesia, Thrace, and Macedonia, within and outside the state borders) and adding to it the number of Bulgarian-speaking persons from the new places worldwide (the old-time, historical, and new, economic immigration), the total number of the Bulgarian-speaking people on this planet is roughly 15 million. This suggests the paramount role that the Bulgarian language has for the unification and preservation of the nation even under the circumstances of intensifying globalization.

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  1. Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Ana Kocheva

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  1. Department of Geography, University of Kentucky Department of Geography, Lexington, KY, USA

    Stanley D Brunn

  2. Deutscher Sprachatlas, Marburg University, Marburg, Hessen, Germany

    Roland Kehrein

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Kocheva, A. (2019). Bulgarian Language in New Places Worldwide. In: Brunn, S., Kehrein, R. (eds) Handbook of the Changing World Language Map. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73400-2_140-1

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