Proto-Bulgarian

Target entity: Proto-Bulgarian
Context triple: [Asparuh of Bulgaria, languageCommunity, Proto-Bulgarian]

• A. Middle Bulgarian
  Middle Bulgarian is the historical stage of the Bulgarian language used roughly between the 12th and 17th centuries, serving as a key transitional form between Old Bulgarian and modern Bulgarian.
• B. Bulgarian language
  Bulgarian is a South Slavic language spoken primarily in Bulgaria, notable for being the first Slavic language with a written literary tradition and for its distinctive grammatical features such as the loss of noun cases and the use of suffixed definite articles.
• C. Church Slavonic
  Church Slavonic is a historical Slavic liturgical language used primarily in Eastern Orthodox Christian worship and religious texts across Slavic-speaking regions.
• D. Old East Slavic
  Old East Slavic was the medieval East Slavic language spoken in Kievan Rus', from which the modern Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian languages developed.
• E. Eastern Bulgarian dialects
  Eastern Bulgarian dialects are a group of regional varieties of Bulgarian spoken in the eastern part of Bulgaria, distinguished by specific phonological and grammatical features.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Proto-Bulgarian
Target entity description: Proto-Bulgarian was the early Turkic-influenced language spoken by the Bulgar tribes who founded the First Bulgarian Empire under leaders such as Asparuh.

• A. Middle Bulgarian
  Middle Bulgarian is the historical stage of the Bulgarian language used roughly between the 12th and 17th centuries, serving as a key transitional form between Old Bulgarian and modern Bulgarian.
• B. Bulgarian language
  Bulgarian is a South Slavic language spoken primarily in Bulgaria, notable for being the first Slavic language with a written literary tradition and for its distinctive grammatical features such as the loss of noun cases and the use of suffixed definite articles.
• C. Church Slavonic
  Church Slavonic is a historical Slavic liturgical language used primarily in Eastern Orthodox Christian worship and religious texts across Slavic-speaking regions.
• D. Old East Slavic
  Old East Slavic was the medieval East Slavic language spoken in Kievan Rus', from which the modern Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian languages developed.
• E. Eastern Bulgarian dialects
  Eastern Bulgarian dialects are a group of regional varieties of Bulgarian spoken in the eastern part of Bulgaria, distinguished by specific phonological and grammatical features.
• F. None of above. chosen