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In article <1992Aug10.014056.10657@midway.uchicago.edu> hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu
(sven  hauptfeld) writes:
> P.S. It seems to me that English, French, German, Spanish and Italian
> pronounciation should be relatively well known, at least among people who
> are interested enough to read sci.lang; but I'd REALLY like to see guides
> like these for Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish,
> Estonian, Hungarian, modern Greek, Turkish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Czech,
> Slowak, Dutch... (more Slavic languages, too - I know some of them, but
> other people don't!)

Bulgarian comes next:

Bulgarian uses the Cyrillic alphabet. But, anyway, it has some letters
that are written the same way as some letters of the Latin alphabet.
There are 30 letters. I will denote them graphically in two distinct
ways:
   -- using the Latin letter which looks the same as the Cyrillic one,
      when possible and
   -- using a graphical description of the capital letter (in a 7X7 bit-
      map.

01     A                          01   [a]
02                                02   [b]
           OOOOOOO
           O
           O
           OOOOOO
           O     O
           O     O
           OOOOOO

03     B                          03   [v]
04                                04   [g]
           OOOOOOO
           O
           O
           O
           O
           O
           O

05                                05   [d]
             OOO
            O   O
            O   O
            O   O
            O   O
          OOOOOOOOO
          O       O

06     E                          06   [e]
07                                07   [3]     (as in 'vision')
          O  O  O
           O O O
            OOO
             O
            OOO
           O O O
          O  O  O

08     3                          08   [z]     (as in 'zeal')
09                                09   [i]
          O     O
          O    OO
          O   O O
          O  O  O
          O O   O
          OO    O
          O     O

10                                10   [y]
            OOO

           O   O
           O  OO
           O O O
           OO  O
           O   O

11     K                          11   [k]
12                                12   [l-] superimposed hyphen on [l]:
             O                              (IPA symbol for a sound
            O O                              closer to [w] than to [l])
            O O
           O   O
           O   O
          O     O
          O     O

13     M                          13   [m]
14     H                          14   [n]
15     O                          15   [o]
16                                16   [p]
          OOOOOOO
          O     O
          O     O
          O     O
          O     O
          O     O
          O     O

17     P                          17   [r]
18     C                          18   [s]
19     T                          19   [t]
20                                20   [u]
         O     O
         O     O
         O     O
          OOOOOO
               O
         O     O
          OOOOO

21                                21   [f]
             O
           OOOOO
          O  O  O
          O  O  O
          O  O  O
           OOOOO
             O

22     X                          22   [h]
23                                23   [ts]
          O    O
          O    O
          O    O
          O    O
          O    O
          OOOOOOO
                O
                                         V
24                                24   [ts]   (this corresponds to the
          O     O                              English 'ch' as is 'chat'
          O     O
          O     O
          OOOOOOO
                O
                O
                O
                                        V
25                                25   [s]     English 'sh' as in 'show'
          O  O  O
          O  O  O
          O  O  O
          O  O  O
          O  O  O
          O  O  O
          OOOOOOO
                                        V
26                                26   [st]    English 'sht' as in
           O O O                               'fresh tea'
           O O O
           O O O
           O O O
           O O O
           OOOOOO
                O

27                                27   [^]  lower-mid back unrounded
          OO                                vowel: you can get an idea
           O                                from the English 'cut'
           O
           OOOOO
           O    O
           O    O
           OOOOO

28                                28   [y]
          O
          O
          O
          OOOOOO
          O     O
          O     O
          OOOOOO

29                                29   [yu]
          O  OOO
          O O   O
          O O   O
          OOO   O
          O O   O
          O O   O
          O  OOO

30                                30   [ya]
           OOOOOO
          O     O
          O     O
           OOOOOO
             O  O
            O   O
           O    O

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Any comments and corrections will be welcome.

Dragomir

P.S. Stress can be on any syllable in the word. Examples of Bulgarian
cities:
     ['so-fi-ya]Sofia
     ['ru-se]Ruse
     [bur-'gas]Burgas
     [ve-'li-ko 't^r-no-vo]Veliko Tarnovo