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In article <1993Jan3.164904.6398@desire.wright.edu> nyoung@desire.wright.edu writes:
>Proto-Altaic, I find the Bulgarian/Altaic connection at
>least interesting.
>Of course, reading through this book makes me, as my
>Tamil friend says, "scratch at my brains" to follow the
>logic. Maybe Japanese, Bulgarian and some other languages
>are related to Altaic. Maybe not. As reading goes, the book
>comes close to being as mind-boggling as a trigonometry text.
>But I'm sure that my mentioning it will start a flame war
>about Bulgarian. (I wouldn't know, personally. I don't have
>the foggiest notion about Bulgarian.)
>
>Nils
>

Old Bulgarian and Bulgarian are not related as far as I know.  The
Bulgar Horde was an Altaic tribe that came, settled in the lands we now
call Bulgaria, married and mixed with the local Slav population and
accepted Orthodox Christianity and their language.  

I wasn't aware that old Bulgarian references existed.  How much of the
fragments of the language survived?

regards,
Deniz Akkus deniz@ctr.columbia.edu