.★· Bulgarian is part of the South Slavic language group.

.★· Macedonian is closely related to Bulgarian.

.★· It does not use case declension (aside from vocative).

.★· It does not have an infinitive verb form.

.★· The definite article is suffixed

.★· During the First Bulgarian Empire, the cyrillic alphabet was developed

.★· Bulgarian has a phonemic orthography with a handful of exceptions.

.★· Bulgarian has its own braille alphabet (based on unified international braille).