Bulgarian alphabet

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Bulgarian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet. Modern Bulgarian Cyrillic has 30 letters:

Capital letters	Small letters	Name	IPA value	Approx. English sound
А	а	а	a	far, father
Б	б	бъ	b	bird
В	в	въ	v	victory
Г	г	гъ	g	go
Д	д	дъ	d	delay
Е	е	е	ɛ	pet
Ж	ж	жъ	ʒ	vision
З	з	зъ	z	zealot
И	и	и	i	need, happy
Й	й	и кратко	j	yes, you
К	к	къ	k	sketch
Л	л	лъ	l, ɫ	fill, blue
М	м	мъ	m	meat
Н	н	нъ	n	need
О	о	о	ɔ	fork
П	п	пъ	p	speak
Р	р	ръ	ɾ	Scottish r
С	с	съ	s	soap
Т	т	тъ	t	stop
У	у	у	u	food
Ф	ф	фъ	f	fast
Х	х	хъ	x	Scottish loch
Ц	ц	цъ	ʦ	cats
Ч	ч	чъ	ʧ	cherry
Ш	ш	шъ	ʃ	sure
Щ	щ	щъ	ʃt	ʃ + t
Ъ	ъ	ер голям	ɤ	bird
Ь	ь	ер малък	No phonetic value*
Ю	ю	ю	ju	you, new
Я	я	я	ja, jɤ	yard

* ь is used only after consonants and before о, where it marks palatalisation of the consonant.

Bulgarian spelling can also employ vowels with grave accent to mark the stress (e.g. in textbooks for foreigners), or to disambiguate some homographic or homophonic words (e.g. па̀ра (steam) and пара̀ (old coin)). The 3p singular feminine personal pronoun should always be spelled ѝ (и with grave) to disambiguate it from the conjunction и (and). Unfortunately this character is present in only a few fonts, so on a computer people usually type й or и.

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