Сarmatians and Skythians were great iranic tribes controlling a huge territories and having very rich culture. They used runic system, very similar to the bulgarian one.
Sarmatian runes were used to translate the bulgarian ones in the village Murtfadlar(norther Dobrudja, today in Romania)
here is the protobulgar runic alphabet
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The close political and cultural relations between Alans and Proto-Bulgarians suggest the application of the already deciphered Ukrainian inscriptions as a key for those from Murfatlar. For example, it is not difficult to recognize that six out of the seven characters in the inscription ALANUI KAN are also found in Murfatlar.
Beside the Alans, the Kassogs, another people once living close to the Proto-Bulgarians, had also an alphabet of Murfatlar type. VII c. Armenian sources mentioned that the people "Kash" (the Kassogs) live "between the Bulgars and the Pontus", i.e. in the area between that of Kubrat Bulgaria and the Black Sea. The Kassogs were therefore also close neighbours of the Alans. That is why there is close similarity between the Alanian inscriptions, discovered along the lower course of Don, the Kassogian inscriptions between Don and Kuban, and the Proto-Bulgarian runic inscriptions from Murfatlar. In one of the Kassogian inscriptions G. Turchaninov read the title KHAN KAISIHI, the word KHAN being written in exactly the same way as in the inscriptions quoted above. Seven out of the ten characters of the Kassogian inscription appear in Murfatlar, two more - of a somewhat modified appearance.
The Alanian, Kassogian and Ossetian inscriptions helped to interpret 20 Murfatlar characters.
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The slavs them selves were a mixture between baltic people and Iranic people. So they are somehow related, but bulgarians are descendance of those sarmatians who didn't mixed at all: - see the map
also you cannot ignore the similarities between the bulgarian kukeri and the Iranian zoroastrian rituals:
bulgarian
and zoroastrian:
bulgaria fire rituals on Sirni Zagovezni
And zoroastrian iranic: