Indicator history

Education in mother tongue is a part of the primary and secondary curricula as a selective subject. Students state that they are willing to study mother tongue and they specify which their mother tongue is. In 2010/2011 under  Ministry of Education data cited by "В Родопите: 7 часа турски, 5 часа български ", Trud Daily of 19 April 2011, school year a total of 13,536 pupils took advantage of that option. The highest share of pupils study Turkish –  6,678 (compared to 19,800 during the previous year), only 28 pupils are studying Romani language, 134 children were studying Hebrew in 2010, 151 children study Armenian, and 28 children studied Greek in 2010. 27 children study Arabian and less than 10 - English or Czech.

The embassies of many countries in Bulgaria offer language courses, for which permission from the Bulgarian authorities is not required, and they work under the rules of their home countries, said Mrs. Petya Evtimova, deputy Minister of the Education, cited in "В Родопите: 7 часа турски, 5 часа български ", Trud Daily of 19 April 2011.

The newly voted National Strategy of the Republic of Bulgaria for Roma Integration 2012 – 2020, and the action plan for its implementation foresee the implementation of bilingual technologies for education of children with mother tongue other than Bulgarian.