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Book/Printed Material Bulgarian Phrasebook for Those Who Would Like to Speak Greek.

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Title

  • Bulgarian Phrasebook for Those Who Would Like to Speak Greek.

Summary

  • Bulgarian Phrasebook for Those Who Would Like to Speak Greek is an 1845 phrasebook and manual for writing business letters in Greek for use by Bulgarians. It was not the first such business aid published in Bulgarian, but it is significant because of the importance of its author, Konstantin Fotinov (circa 1790--1858), a Bulgarian educator and editor of the first Bulgarian periodical, Liuboslovie (Philology). Fotinov recognized that in order to compete with the Greeks in the area of commerce, Bulgarians needed to be conversant in Greek, which was widely used in major commercial centers and ports of the Ottoman Empire. The last 26 pages of the book are bilingual Bulgarian--Greek samples of business correspondence.

Names

  • Fotinov, Konstantin Georgiev, circa 1790-1858 Author.

Created / Published

  • Smyrna : A. Damianova, 1845.

Headings

  • -  Bulgaria
  • -  1845
  • -  Conversation and phrase books

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 96 pages ; 18 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
  • -  Content in Bulgarian and Church Slavic and Modern Greek (1453-).
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666559

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Fotinov, Konstantin Georgiev, Circa Author. Bulgarian Phrasebook for Those Who Would Like to Speak Greek. Smyrna: A. Damianova, 1845. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666559/.

APA citation style:

Fotinov, K. G. (1845) Bulgarian Phrasebook for Those Who Would Like to Speak Greek. Smyrna: A. Damianova. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666559/.

MLA citation style:

Fotinov, Konstantin Georgiev, Circa Author. Bulgarian Phrasebook for Those Who Would Like to Speak Greek. Smyrna: A. Damianova, 1845. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666559/>.