Countries
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
France, Spain
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Interesting Facts
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
- 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
Spanish
Macedonian language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2730
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Kaixo
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
Eskerrik asko
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Zer moduz?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
Gabon
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
Arratsalde on
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
Arratsalde on
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
Egun on
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Mesedez
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
Barkatu
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
Agur
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
Maite zaitut
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
Barkatu
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Navarro-Lapurdian
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
France
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
68,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Souletin
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
France, Soule, Spain
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
8,700.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Biscayan
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Spain
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
750,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
658
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.20 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.12 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.20 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.70 million9.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Euskara
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
Balgarski
French Name
basque
bulgare
German Name
Baskisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[bɑːsk]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Basque people
Bulgarian people
Origin
c. 1000
9th Century
Language Family
Vasconic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Basque
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
3088
1
120
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Signed Forms
Basque Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
eu
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
eus
bul
ISO 639 2/B
baq
bul
ISO 639 3
eus
bul
ISO 639 6
eus
buls
Glottocode
basq1248
bulg1262
Linguasphere
40-AAA-a
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
-