Language as Cultural Unifier in a Multilingual Setting: The Bulgarian Case During the Nineteenth Century
Language as Cultural Unifier in a Multilingual Setting: The Bulgarian Case During the Nineteenth Century

Summary/Abstract: In an undated two-page document, probably from the 1840s, Salcho Chomakov, a well-known and affluent Bulgarian merchant and notable, entered his expenditures on his way from Filibe (Philipopolis, Plovdiv) to Istanbul (Constantinople), through Edirne (Adrianople, Odrin). This is a really charming Balkan piece, written in Bulgarian, with Greek letters and Turkish figures. The Bulgarian itself is interspersed with Turkish and Greek words, and sometimes even a Turkish conjunction would be used in the place of a Bulgarian (for example, "ve" instead of "i" for "and"). [...]

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