# Bulgarian Translation Services

> Bulgarian translation services for documents from Bulgaria and its communities abroad, by native human translators. Certified for USCIS, with notarization.

https://roxotranslations.com/bulgarian-translation/

Roxo Translations offers Bulgarian translation services for documents from Bulgaria and from the Bulgarian communities abroad, to and from English, Italian, Russian and Arabic. Every translation is done by a human translator, native in the target language, and reviewed by a second one, never by machine translation.

Send a photo or scan of the document, see the price and the deadline instantly, and receive the translation as a PDF. For the United States it comes certified and accepted by USCIS, with the signed statement and notarization included.

- Bulgarian to English and English to Bulgarian
- Certified for USCIS, with notarization included
- Instant online quote and fast delivery

## Where Bulgarian is spoken and where your translation is accepted

Bulgarian is the official language of Bulgaria and, since Bulgaria joined the European Union on January 1, 2007, an official language of the Union, which made Cyrillic its third alphabet, after Latin and Greek. It is also spoken by historic Bulgarian communities in Moldova, Ukraine, Romania and Serbia, and it has more than 7 million speakers. After 1989, and even more after 2007, many families moved to Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, where they still need their Bulgarian records translated. The destination decides the type of translation.

| Where | What you need |
|---|---|
| United States: USCIS, courts, universities and employers | [Certified translation](https://roxotranslations.com/certified-translation/) into English, with the signed statement of accuracy and notarization included |
| Brazil: notary offices, universities and public agencies | [Sworn translation](https://roxotranslations.com/pt/traducao-juramentada/) into Portuguese, signed by a public sworn translator and valid nationwide. For Bulgarian, we confirm before quoting whether it goes through English |
| Bulgaria and other European Union countries | Ask the receiving authority which format it accepts: we tell you the options before quoting, including the [Hague apostille](https://roxotranslations.com/apostille/) when it applies |
| Bulgarian consulates, citizenship and immigration processes | The translation into the language the authority asks for, with the apostille on the original when it is required |

## Bulgarian language pairs we translate

These are the language pairs with Bulgarian that we translate today, in both directions.

- [Bulgarian to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- [Bulgarian to English](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [Bulgarian to Italian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Bulgarian to Russian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)
- [Arabic to Bulgarian](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- [English to Bulgarian](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [Italian to Bulgarian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Russian to Bulgarian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)

Need a pair that is not on the list? Talk to us: we answer within one hour, 7 days a week.

## Bulgarian translation services: Cyrillic, names and the EGN

Bulgarian is written in Cyrillic, like Russian, but it is a different language, with its own letters, its own grammar and documents in formats of their own. A good translation reads the original as Bulgarian, writes every name the way the passport does and keeps every number of the original.

- Alphabet: Bulgarian Cyrillic has 30 letters, and since 2009 a law sets how they are written in Latin letters, so Ж is zh, Щ is sht and Ъ, a vowel, is a, which makes Търново read Tarnovo. Older passports may spell the same name differently, so Цветан can be Tzvetan or Tsvetan. The translation follows the spelling of your passport, so tell us the form used in your US documents when you order.
- Bulgarian and Russian: the two share the alphabet but not the reading, since Щ is sht in Bulgarian and shch in Russian, and Bulgarian has no letters Ы and Э. Bulgarian nouns have no grammatical cases and take the article at the end of the word, so книга is a book and книгата is the book. A Bulgarian document is translated as Bulgarian, never read as if it were Russian.
- Names: a full name has a first name, a middle name made from the father’s first name and a surname, as in Ivan Georgiev Petrov, son of Georgi. Women take a feminine ending, so his sister is Maria Georgieva Petrova. The middle name looks like a surname, and the translation keeps each part in its own field, so forms in the United States do not read it as a second last name.
- Dates and numbers: dates are written day, month and year with periods, so 03.10.2026 is October 3, 2026, often followed by г., short for year, and the months have their own names, so октомври is October. Decimals use a comma and thousands a space, so 1 500,00 is one thousand five hundred.
- Documents from Bulgaria: the birth certificate (udostoverenie za razhdane), the marriage certificate (udostoverenie za grazhdanski brak), the ID card (lichna karta), the criminal record certificate (svidetelstvo za sadimost) and the diploma with its supplement of subjects and grades. Most of them carry the personal number (EGN, ЕГН), with 10 digits, the first six taken from the date of birth. The translation reproduces every stamp, seal and note.

## The history of the Bulgarian language

Bulgarian is a South Slavic language and the heir of Old Church Slavonic, the first written Slavic language. Bulgaria adopted Christianity in 864, and in 886 Clement and Naum, disciples of Saints Cyril and Methodius, arrived there with the Glagolitic alphabet the brothers had created. At the end of the 9th century the Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire, and in 893 the Council of Preslav made Slavonic the language of church and state. Bulgaria still celebrates the alphabet and its culture every May 24.

From the end of the 14th century to 1878 Bulgaria was under Ottoman rule, and books in Bulgarian were copied in monasteries. In 1762 Paisius of Hilendar wrote his Slavonic-Bulgarian History, a starting point of the National Revival. The Nedelnik of Sofronius of Vratsa, from 1806, is counted as the first printed book in modern Bulgarian, and the Fish Primer of Petar Beron, from 1824, taught generations to read. The spelling reform of 1945 removed letters such as ѣ and ѫ and set the 30 letters used today.

After 1989 many Bulgarians emigrated, and on January 1, 2007, Bulgaria joined the European Union, bringing Bulgarian and the Cyrillic alphabet into its official texts. Today Bulgarian has more than 7 million speakers, in Bulgaria and in the communities abroad, and those families still need their records translated for immigration, study and work.

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