crni, all bulgarian is written in Cyrillic- even words that have been borrowed from other languages get 'adjusted' and are written in Cyrillic. So we dong have the 'z' with the mark on top.
And we have the same
ะน as in Russian, it is called 'i kratko' or 'short i'. In translit it is usually written as 'j' or 'i' or sometimes 'y', like I said- translit is very open to interpretation depending on the combination of letters in the word, and depending on the person translitting.
I am not sure if you saw it earlier in the thread, but if you look on the 1st page you can see links to the Bulgarian and the Russian alphabets, and how identical they are.
freddie, exactly- I agree. I think Slovene might be closer to bulgarian than we thought eh?
Even now I am getting surprised, he he. Right now seems a little closer or at least as closer as Croatian or serbian