Знаем толкова, колкото помним
We Know as Much as We Remember

Summary/Abstract: This article is part of a larger study related to the poorly researched topic of the linguistic peculiarities of some unexplored Bulgarian Revival figures associated with the struggle for an independent Bulgarian Church in the 1850s and 1860s. The main aspects of the study are to analyze some of the letters in the correspondence between Hadji Nikoli, a prominent merchant from Tarnovo, and other prominent representatives who participated in the struggle for church independence. The problem is interesting because during the Revival there was no established literary norm, which led to heterogeneous writing practices among different writers. A model for normalization of texts is also proposed in order to make the meaning of the ideas expressed by the writers more accessible. This article presents an original letter by Hadji Nikoli, a variant of normalization with the preservation of some of its linguistic features, and another variant with completely normalized characteristics of the text.

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