Abstract. The article summarizes data collected through an online survey conducted in the period March – April 2025, and focuses on four lexemes of foreign origin: ретард, фоториплей, делюжънъл and сийнвам. The main target group is students and young people up to the age of 25. The format of the survey makes it possible to identify more specific lexemes of foreign origin, which are in active use by the participants in the survey, and to see trends in terms of the development of the language of the young generation in Bulgaria.
Keywords: youth sociolect, slang, words of foreign origin, language of the young
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The publication was prepared with the financial support of the Ministry of Education and Science under the National Program „Development and Promotion of Bulgarian Studies Abroad“.
