The nominal forms of the Troyan Damaskin, a 17 ^th century Bulgarian literary monument, were analyzed with the intent to prove that the Troyan Damaskin can in no way be considered to be the beginning of Neo-Bulgarian literature and that rather it is written in a mixture of Church Slavonic and Neo-Bulgarian language.

The nominal forms with synthetic endings from one tale were collected, including nouns, pronouns, adjectives and forms with the definite article were collected and then the other eighteen tales were also examined and forms not found in the first tale examined were collected and all forms were sorted by nominal category. Then conclusions were made based on the relative proportions of Church Slavonic/synthetic endings to the analytic forms without endings.

The findings revealed that the Troyan Damaskin is written in a mixture of Church Slavonic forms preserved by the copyist and showing a declensional pattern according to Church Slavonic linguistic norms and a forms that are synthetic but neither Church Slavonic nor Neo-Bulgarian and analytic Neo-Bulgarian forms and that the Church Slavonic/synthetic forms were in such a great number as to disallow the Troyan Damaskin from being considered as the beginning of Neo-Bulgarian literature.