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The Bulgarian political press used linguistic elements in fashion at the tune (l.e. words and expressions) which were a product of the lesicat inventory of the Bomanian press or of the spoken language ^{1 2 3 4} The fact was discussed in a report presented to the First International Congress of South-East European Studies : “standard Bulgarian came into being almost entirely in the 19th cent. through the periodicals published in Komama. l^iis allowed for part of the Bomanian words to penetrate into the Bulgarian language. The Bulgarian revolutionaries used the Bomanian yocabulary in ordtft* to convey the desired notions” ⁵. Some socio-political and cultural facts contributed to thę formation of standard Bulgarian and among them was the intelligentsia, the spreaders of Bulgarian culture who, in most cases, were speakers of Bomanian ⁶. Among them was Sofronie^ Vraćanski, who had lived in Bomania for 11 years (1802—1813) and had learnt Bomanian.

Doctor Petre Beron came to Bomania when he was 17 (1817) and lived here, with a few gaps, for morę than 50 years (up to 1871) An analysis of one of his widely spread works, the Alphabet evinces that he-made use of Bomanian sources ⁷.

Dr. Ivan Seliminski, who had a Greek training, lived in Brasow for seven years (1821—1828) and was in contact with P. Beron; he spent another 40 years in several towns of Walachia (among which Bucharest and Galami) (1830—1867). Since he was a doctor, he must have been conversant with Bomanian.

G. S. Bakoyski might have learnt Bomanian as well, sińce he lived intermittently in Br ii la and Bucharest for morę than 8 years}(1856—67).

Hristo Botev lived in Briila and Bucharest (1868—1876). His contemporaries maintain that his Bomanian was perfect. He was the “porte-parole” in the relationships with the Bomanian authorities and developed a rich joumalistic aetivity. The influence of the Bomanian yocabulary is obvious in what he wrote.

Ivan Vazov is known to have spoken Bomanian as some samples-of his yocabulary and topics stand proof.

Educated people as well as so many others, morę or less well-known journalists in the Bulgarian culture, unconsciously or deliberately intro-duced Bomanian elements into their raother-tongue in the very period of formation of standard Bulgarian.

That is why, we find the use of a great number of Bomanian terms in the language of the Bulgarian revolutionaries as perfectly normal.

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•    Cf. N. Żećev, Despre legóiurtle bulgaro-romóne din sec. al XIX-lea in domeniul presel„

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"Romanoslłwica’’, XVII, 1970, p. 613-618.

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•    B. Slmeonov ln Actes du Premier Congrts International des itudes balkanlęues et tud-

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est europłennes, Sofia, 1968, vol. VI, p. 589.

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•    Krastyn Genov, "Rlbntat bukoar” na Beron l eklogarit na Daroarls, in "Narodna prosveta”, XVIII, 7, 1962, Sofia, p. 61—71; C. N. Velichł, La contribution de VŁmlgration bulgare..., p. 205—216.

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V. Chclaru, Le dtoeloppement du bulgare IttUraire au XIX* siicle. Facteurs eztralln-guistiąue, in "Rapports et Communications prćsentćes au VII® Congrts International des sla-

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yistes, Varsovie, 21—27 aodt 1973", Cralova, 1973. 35 p.