Middle Bulgarian

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Middle Bulgarian (Bulgarian: среднобългарски език) was the lingua franca and the most widely spoken language of the Second Bulgarian Empire. Being descended from Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian eventually developed into the modern Bulgarian language by the 16th century.^[1]