The Forgotten Bulgarian

🚧 Still under construction 🚧

"Забравѣният български" as is the original name of the project written in (old) Bulgarian

is a mobile application for becoming familiar with the Bulgarian language and culture as it is by guessing and learning authentic Bulgarian words that are rarely used nowadays. 🇧🇬📱

Made as a university project 🎓 (with the intention to be a standalone mobile app in the future).

Еtymology of the name

We Bulgarians, as holding the foundations of the Slavic script, are using the Cyrillic alphabet for our writing system. 📜

Every one letter in the alphabet has its own special usage, power and meaning.
But unfortunately, several ones have dropped out of our alphabet ... (tears)

My idea was to remind Bulgarian people (most of whom don't know much about the above) that our language is so beautiful and we have so many authentic and meaningful words that I had to use something considered as "forgotten". I decided to use those "dropped-out" letters to accomplish the task.

There were plenty of them to choose from, but one shines the brightest of them all. ✨

That is the letter ѣ,

called "yat" ("ят" in Bulgarian) whose main role was to unite the Eastern and Western dialect speech.

Yes, in this small land of Bulgaria we have so many dialects that very often we don't understand each other. 😁

There is so much to write about our dialects but mainly Easterners tend to use the sound \e\ (like in set) more in words, whereas Westerners are mostly using the sound \ja\ (like in yacht).

For example the word "milk" in literary Bulgarian is "мляко" and you will hear Westerners saying it that way - "мляко". But if you go to Eastern villages or towns in Bulgaria, you are probably going to hear people calling it "млеко". 🥛

Here ѣ comes in handy. By using the ѣ letter, both Easterners and Westerners are capable of reading and pronouncing the given word in their own way.

Continuing with the "milk" example 🥛 - by just writing the word as "млѣко" you would allow Easterners to read and pronounce it "млеко" and Westerners - "мляко". Just freedom. 😄

That's why I used ѣ in "Забравѣният" because the Bulgarian language is almost forgotten (Забравеният) and is in constant state of oblivion (Забравяният).
I had to do something about it.

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