I’ve always seen bulgarian typed with a normal cyrillic alphabet, but google seems pretty insistent that it’s written lik this. I’m also pretty sure it didn’t used to do this. Am I going schizo mode or is google.

by JesterofThings

10 comments

  1. This *is* the Cyrillic alphabet, so I’m not sure where your confusion lies.

  3. this is the cyrlic alphabet

    its a font and some letters might not be exactly what you would expect if all you have seen is Arial font (the т,в л и) but this is perfectly readable. in fact its closer to what bulgarian letters actually look like, not the Russian ones

  5. There are a few differences in official Bulgarian Cyrillic and Russian Cyrillic, assuming that’s what you find normal. Just some letters are written a bit different, but mostly noone knows these differences exist or notices them.

  6. I studied this in uni. As others have said, this is the Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet typeface. It was created not too long ago because we were using (and still use) the Russian typeface, which consists of capital letters and lowercase letters that are just capital letters, but small. The Bulgarian typeface was created to resemble cursive handwriting and that is why they are so distinctive. The lowercase letters are created with the same premise as Latin based languages, to be closer to handwriting and to be pleasing to the eye. I prefer this typeface, it looks smooth and reading it is easier.

  8. That is what I was always wondering. Even when I google stuff in Bulgarian, the results come in this “other” script. What I would expect it to look like is like this:
    През зимата на 1927-28 служители на федералното правителство направиха странно…г

    But here it looks like italic that has been straightened:

    *През зимата на 1927-28 служители на федералното правителство направиха странно…г*

  9. You’re absolutely right, Google changed to using cursive Cyrillic about a year or so ago. It’s not helpful at all for those of us who haven’t learned to read cursive yet. It’s super annoying.

  10. It’s a form of rounden cyrillic and I like it especially their version of з.

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