A Comparative Study on Language Lexicon between Bulgarian and Macedonian

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This research aims to investigate the similarity and the diversity between Macedonian and Bulgarian lexicon. As it is well known, Macedonian and Bulgarian have the same mother tongue, Proto Slavic, Common Slavic and Old Church Slavic Language. That’s why two languages have similar Slavic language features in their lexicons. On the other hand, in spite of this historical background, contemporary Macedonian and Bulgarian have many diverse linguistic features. This diversity comes from social linguistic factors and language contacts with other Balkan countries (Greek, Romanian, Serbian et al). These features should be shown also in their lexicons. In this paper was analyzed lexicon of these two languages with the help of Macedonian-Bulgarian dictionary (as a low data material). I divided the results as following sub-groups.


- AA type: Macedonian example is same with Bulgarian - AA’ type: Macedonian example has same root with Bulgarian - AB type: Macedonian example is different from Bulgarian - ABC type: Macedonian example has 2 more different counter examples with Bulgarian or vice versa

As a result of these studies, Macedonian lexicon is very similar to that of Bulgarian vocabularies in spite of the many influences from Serbian and even from Turkish(Ottoman Empire influences). It means that AA, AA' type examples are main part of their lexicon. Even more, we can find the Greek and Latin influences in the borrowings. In the field of adverbs, about 32-34% adverbs have different word forms between the two languages. But these differences are from dialectic adoptions of South Slavic languages.

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