Bulgar language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Not to be confused with Bulgarian language. Bulgar Region from Central Asia to the steppes North of the Caucasus, the Volga, and the Danube, and Southern Italy (Molise, Campania) Extinct by the 9th or 10th centuries on the Danube and by the 14th century in the Volga region Language family Turkic  Oghur (Lir)  Bulgar Language codes ISO 639-3 xbo Linguist list xbo Glottolog bolg1250 [1] Bulgar (also spelled Bolğar, Bulghar) is an extinct language which was spoken by the Bulgars. The name is derived from the Bulgars, a tribal association which established the Bulgar state, known as Old Great Bulgaria in the mid-7th century, giving rise to the Danubian Bulgaria by the 680s. [2] [3] [4] While the language was extinct in Danubian Bulgaria (in favour of the Slavic Bulgarian language), it persisted in Volga Bulgaria, eventually giving rise to the modern Chuvash language. [5] [6] [7] Contents [hide]  1 Affiliation  2 Danube Bolgar  3 Volga Bulgar  4 Notes  5 External links Affiliation[edit] Mainstream scholarship place the Bulgar language among the "Lir" branch of Turkic languages referred to as Oghur-Turkic, Lir-Turkic, or, indeed, "Bulgar Turkic" as opposed to the "Shaz"-type of Common Turkic. The "Lir" branch is characterized by sound correspondences such as Oghuric r versus Common Turkic (or Shaz-Turkic) z and Oghuric l versus Common Turkic (Shaz-Turkic) š. [2] [4] [8] As was stated by Al-Istakhri "the language of Bulgars resembles the language of Khazars". [9] The only surviving language from this linguistic group is the Chuvash. Omeljan Pritsak in his notable study "The Hunnic Language of the Attila Clan"