Banat Bulgarian dialect

Banat Bulgarian
Banat Bulgarian
Banátsća balgarsćija jazić
Palćena balgarsćija jazić
Native to	Romania (Banat, Transylvania), Serbia (Vojvodina)
Native speakers	(undated figure of 8,000–15,000)
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic South Slavic Eastern South Slavic Bulgarian Eastern Bulgarian Rup Paulician Banat Bulgarian; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	bul-ban
Glottolog	bana1308

Banat Bulgarian (Banat Bulgarian: Palćena balgarsćija jazić or Banátsća balgarsćija jazić; Bulgarian: банатскa българскa книжовна норма, romanized: banatska bâlgarska knižovna norma) is the outermost dialect of the Bulgarian language with standardized writing and an old literary tradition. It is spoken by the Banat Bulgarians in the Banat region, in Romania and Serbia. Officially, it is spoken by 8,000 people (1,658 in Serbia, and 6,500 in Romania), though other estimates give numbers up to 15,000.

In 1998, Jáni Vasilčin from Dudeştii Vechi translated the New Testament into Banat Bulgarian: Svetotu Pismu Novija Zákun. In 2017 Ána Marijka Bodor published a Banat Bulgarian translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince.

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