THE BULGARIAN LEXICAL DATA IN THE SLAVIC LINGUISTIC ATLAS (Vol. 1. «Animal world». Vol. 2. «Livestock». Vol. 3. «Flora». Vol. 8. «Professions and social life»)

Based on lexical data presented in this study, there is proposed a projection of Bulgarian patois from OLA grid onto Slavic dialectal continuum. There are shown relationships between the Bulgarian and other Slavic dialects with the stress on distinctive lexemes peculiar to Bulgarian ones that define the specific character of the Bulgarian language on the lexical level.