Bulgarian is a phonetic language, which makes pronunciation very easy to understand. Each letter of the alphabet has only one sound, and it always sounds the same no matter where it appears in a word.
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Cyrillic Letter
А а
Б б
В в
Г г
Д д
Е е
Ж ж
З з
И и
Й й
К к
Л л
М м
Н н
О о
П п
P p
С с
Т т
У у
Ф ф
Х х
Ц ц
Ч ч
Ш ш
Щ щ
Ъ ъ
Ь ь
Ю ю
Я я
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Pronunciation
“a” as in “father”
“b” as in “buffalo”
“v” as in “very”
“g” as in “garage”
“d” as in “dot”
“e” as in “elephant”
“zh” like “garage”
“z” as in “buzz”
“ee” as in “peel”
“eeee” as in “Eeek!”
“k” as in “king”
“l” as in “lucky”
“m” as in “mother”
“n” as in “new”
“o” as in “open”
“p” as in “path”
“r” as in “ran”
“s” as in “sea”
“t” as in “top”
“oo” as in moon”
“f” as in “fox”
“h” as in “hotel”
“ts” as in “pants”
“ch” as in “cheese”
“sh” as in “short”
“sht” as in “pushed”
“u” as in “fur”
no sound, softens preceding consonant
“you” as in “youth”
“ya” as in “yard”
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