Comparative analysis - signs from Early Medieval Bulgaria.

According to the classification of some non-Bulgarian linguists, the runic inscriptions found on the territory of Early Medieval Bulgaria fall into three geographical groups: Carpathian - the inscriptions from Nagy Saint Miklos and Sarvash, Dobruja - the Murfatlar inscriptions and Eastern Bulgarian - the inscriptions found in the area of the old Bulgarian capitals Pliska and Preslav (Rona- Tas A. 1988, Tryjarski E. 1995). Bulgarian scholars tend to consider the inscriptions from the First Bulgarian Kingdom in one group, assuming that the runic alphabets are several variants (Popkonstantinov K. 1993) or belong to one script with local variants and significant changes over time (Granberg A. 2005 ).

The table below compares the 44 Murfatlar signs with the runic signs of Early Medieval Bulgaria. I have separated the columns as follows: in the second - the inscriptions from Ravna (Popkonstantinov K. 1993, Popkonstantinov K. 1997); in the third - the inscriptions from Byala, Shudikovo, Kukri Zaba, Silistrensko, Pliska (Popkonstantinov K. 1993) and Oryakhovo (Ivanov P. 1997), in the fourth the inscriptions from Krepcha (Popkonstantinov K. 1993), in the fifth - the inscription from Sofia (Sefterski R. 1999) and in the sixth the inscription from a ring from Shumensko (Venedikov I. 1995-97). Seventeen of the Murfatlar signs match in form with the runes of Early Medieval Bulgaria.

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