Editing Bulgar language (section)

==Affiliation==
Mainstream scholarship places Bulgar among the "Lir" branch of [[Turkic languages]] referred to as [[Oghuric languages|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/.<ref name="brit"/><ref name=marc/><ref name=johanson>Johanson, Lars. 1998. "The history of Turkic." In: Johanson, Lars & Éva Agnes Csató (ed.). 1998. ''The Turkic languages''. London: Routledge, pp. 81–125.{{cite web |url=http://www.turkiclanguages.com/www/classification.html |title=Turcologica |access-date=2007-09-05 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110408063746/http://www.turkiclanguages.com/www/classification.html |archive-date=2011-04-08 }}; Johanson, Lars. 2007. Chuvash. ''Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics''. Oxford: Elsevier.</ref> As was stated by [[Estakhri|Al-Istakhri]] (c. 10 century CE), "''The language of the [[Khazar language|Khazars]] is different than the language of the Turks and the Persians, nor does a tongue of (any) group of humanity have anything in common with it and the language of the Bulgars is like the language of the Khazars, but the Burtas have another language.''"<ref>{{Cite book |last=Заходер |first=Б. Н. |title=Каспийский свод сведений о Восточной Европе : Горган и Поволжье в IX-X вв |publisher=Восточная литература |year=1962 |editor-last=Беляев |editor-first=Е.А. |volume=I |location=Москва |pages=238 |language=ru}}</ref>

The only surviving language from this linguistic group is [[Chuvash language|Chuvash]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/huri/files/vvi_n4_dec1982.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-01-02 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161213172602/http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/huri/files/vvi_n4_dec1982.pdf |archive-date=2016-12-13 }}</ref> He concludes that the language of the Bulgars was from the family of the ''Hunnic languages'', as he calls the [[Oghuric languages|Oghur languages]].<ref>The Turks: Early ages, Vol. 1 , Cem Oğuz, {{ISBN|9756782552}}, Author Murat Ocak, Redactors: Hasan Celāl Güzel, Cem Oğuz, Osman Karatay, Publisher: Yeni Türkiye, 2002, p. 535.</ref> According to the Bulgarian [[Antoaneta Granberg]], the Hunno-Bulgar linguistic situation is further complicated by the extensive migration of nomadic communities of [[Hunnic language|Hunnic]] and [[Oghuric languages|Oghuric]] peoples from East to West. This migration brought them into contact with a variety of different lands, neighbors, cultures, and languages, including [[China]] and [[Rome]]. Linguistic individuation of the Hunno-Bulgaric language family has yet to be conclusively established. A Hunno-Bulgar language is believed to have formed on the North-Western borders of China in the 3rd-5th c. BC.<ref>The Hunno-Bulgar language, Antoaneta Granberg, {{cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.centralasien.dk/joomla/images/journal/DSCA2008.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120184254/http://www.centralasien.dk/joomla/images/journal/DSCA2008.pdf |archive-date=2015-11-20 |access-date=2015-11-20}}</ref>