Abstract: The Great inscription from Preslav has been cut into the granite column, which has been found during excavations in the city of Preslav. It is considered that it contains words of military nature, and numbers written with Greek letters, and is looked at as a part of inscriptions from northeast Bulgaria, called military inventory inscriptions. In modern science dominates the view that these inscriptions have been left from the 'early Bulgarians', settled in Dobrudzha that went to the south cost of Danube with the ruling dynasty of Isperih. Through comparison between the letter (sound) frequencies in the text in the Great inscription from Preslav with the frequencies of the letters of the names (personal - of rulers, clans and calendar names) in the Nominalia of the Bulgarian rulers, we can deduct, that it is very likely that the language of the Big inscription from Preslav is different from the language of the people ruled by Isperih. This point is towards the unbiased search for landmarks for attribution and dating of the Preslav inscription in broader chronological terms. Additional considerations give us the basis for a hypothesis, that the Great Preslav Inscription is an artifact created during the XV century.

Keywords: inscription from Preslav, frequencies of the letters, dating

ACM Classification Keywords: I.6 Simulation and Modeling, I.6.3 Applications

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LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION AND DATING OF THE GREAT PRESLAV INSCRIPTION BASED ON LETTER FREQUENCY

Jordan Tabov, Tzvetan Pavlov

http://www.foibg.com/ijicp/vol01/ijicp01-04-p02.pdf