From: e.karloukovski@uea.ac.uk (Vassil Karloukovski)
Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars)
Date: 30 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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In article <36b214b4.73903547@news.yale.edu>, cluster.user@yale.edu says...
>On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:22:13 GMT, emko@mail.techno-link.com wrote:

>>The Bulgars are Bulgars ...
>>
>>http://members.tripod.com/~Groznijat/pb_lang/index.html
>>http://members.tripod.com/~Groznijat/b_lang/
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>"old bulgarian" etymologies in modern bulgarian.
>
>this list contains many (*not* all) words from ottoman turkish (either
>of persian, arabic, turkish or other origin). the reason these
>can be found in pamir languages is the common relationship 
>of persian with them or borrowing from persian. in somw cases the
>resemblence is coincidental.


I would be very interested in having your more detailed opinion, even it
would be great to put them as commentaries on the web-page. While there are
indeed hundreds if not thousands of persian, turkish, arabic words in 
modern bulgarian (via ottoman turkish), it would be difficult to imagine
pashto words getting into bulgarian this way. 


Regards,
Vassil Karloukovski