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Countries

Countries

Bulgaria, European Union

Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

Bulgaria

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa, Europe

Minority Language

Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine

Regulated By

Institute for the Bulgarian language

Interesting Facts

  • The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
  • The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.

Similar To

Macedonian language

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

30
Rank: 12 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

6
Rank: 3 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)

Thank You

Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)

How Are You?

Как си? (Kak si?)

Good Night

Лека нощ (Leka nošt)

Good Evening

Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)

Good Afternoon

Добър ден (Dobãr den)

Good Morning

Добро утро (Dobro utro)

Please

Моля (Molja)

Sorry

Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)

Bye

Довиждане (Doviždane)

I Love You

Обичам те (Običam te)

Excuse Me

Извинете ме (Izvinete me)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo

Where They Speak

Bulgaria

How Many People Speak

9,200,000.00
Rank: 38 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Panagyurishte

Where They Speak

Bulgaria

How Many People Speak

9,000,000.00
Rank: 38 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Pirdop

Where They Speak

Bulgaria

How Many People Speak

9,000,000.00
Rank: 30 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

58
Rank: 32 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.80 million
Rank: 61 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.21 %
Rank: 47 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.80 million
Rank: 54 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

9.00 million
Rank: 42 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

български (bãlgarski)

Alternative Names

Balgarski

French Name

bulgare

German Name

Bulgarisch

Pronunciation

[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]

Ethnicity

Bulgarian people

History

Origin

9th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic

Branch

Southern

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian

Standard Forms

Standard Bulgarian

Language Position

88
Rank: 69 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Bulgarian Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

bg

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

bul

ISO 639 2/B

bul

ISO 639 3

bul

ISO 639 6

buls

Glottocode

bulg1262

Linguasphere

53-AAA-hb

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Know Alphabets in Bulgarian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Bulgarian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Bulgarian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Bulgarian. Bulgarian phonology gives Bulgarian vowels and Bulgarian consonants. There are 6 vowels and 36 consonants in Bulgarian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Bulgarian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Bulgarian language is given in detail in this section.

All Bulgarian countries

Want to explore all Bulgarian countries? About Bulgarian language serves you with all Bulgarian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Bulgarian as official language are called as Bulgarian countries.

  • Countries that use Bulgarian as their National Language are: Bulgaria.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Bulgarian as second language are: Bulgarian is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Bulgarian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Bulgarian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Bulgarian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Bulgarian language.Learn Bulgarian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  • Thank you: Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  • Good Morning: Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  • Good Evening: Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  • Good Afternoon: Добър ден (Dobãr den)

All Bulgarian Language Codes

Get to know all Bulgarian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Bulgarian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.