The History of the Bulgarian language can be divided into four major periods:
- prehistoric period (from the time of the settlement of the Bulgarian Slavs on the Balkans until the late 9th century);
- Old Bulgarian (from the late 9th until the 11th century);
- Middle Bulgarian (from the 12th century to the 15th century);
- Modern Bulgarian (from the 16th century onwards).
Bulgarian as a written language dates back to the end of the 9th century, i.e. from the time of Old Bulgarian.
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