From: e.karloukovski@uea.ac.uk (Vassil Karloukovski)
Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars)
Date: 02 Feb 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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In article <36b616cc.23913936@news.yale.edu>, cluster.user@yale.edu says...

>>http://members.tripod.com/~Groznijat/pb_lang/index.html
>
>question: in the animal calendar, were there pictographic aids in
>determining the names of the animals?


No, there is only the text of the nominalia (and several rock inscriptions)
but it is fortunate we have even this. The few original bulgarian historical 
texts (the nominalia, the passages added to the bulgarian translation of the
chronicle of Manasius) has been preserved only because they were regarded as 
being a part of other works. - Thus, the text of the nominalia was found 
incorporated in three Russian copies of "Hellenic and Roman chronicle" where
it follows immediately after the book of the kings of the old trestament and,
in fact, concludes (after the last khan Umor) with "... before the mentioned
assyrian kings reigned, as we said, Nabuchodonosor" ("poprezhde rechennyh car 
asirijskâ carstvova jako prezhde recheno by Navohudonosor").

Regards,
Vassil Karloukovski