Patterns of Borrowing
As of the beginning of the 1960s, loanwords stood for some 25% of the vocabulary of the standard dictionary of Bulgarian. The most important source of loanwords in the recent centuries has been Russian. Two other important sources of borrowing were Latin and Medieval and Modern Greek, each accounting for around one-fourth of all borrowings. French and Turkish (along with Arab and Persian) had a weight each of around 15%, whereas loanwords from Russian accounted for 10% of the borrowings. Lesser but still significant influence was exerted by Italian, German and English.
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