Standardization in Balkan Slavic Diachronic Research

The present paper studies the problem of standardization Bulgarian within context emergence Balkan Sprachbund. Traditionally, is considered to be a part nation-building process, understood as codification orthographic and other linguistic norms in authoritative documents. As they are legally binding national collective, traditional view distinguishes texts from era before containing more dialectal phenomena standardized literature, where features usually suppressed. This study presents hypothesis that language 19th century did not have such an impact on later development norms. Rather, merely led changes orthography. Other literary gradually developed manuscript tradition so-called damaskini. supported by quantitative analysis sample various centuries areas.