Countries
Belarus, Poland
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Belarus, Gambia
Bulgaria
Second Language
Poland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Interesting Facts
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
- 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
Russian and Ukrainian
Macedonian language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4830
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3936
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
dobry dzień
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
Dziakuj
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Jak vy ?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
Dabranač
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
Dobry viečar
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
dobry dzień
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
Dobraj ranicy
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Kali laska
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
Vybačajcie
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
da pabačennia
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
JA liubliu ciabie
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
Vybačajcie
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
North-Eastern Belarusian
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
North-East Belarus
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
South-Western Belarusian
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
South-West Belarus
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Middle Belarusian
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Middle Belarus
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
358
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
9.63 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.89 million9.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
Balgarski
French Name
biélorusse
bulgare
German Name
Weißrussisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Belarusians
Bulgarian people
Origin
18th century
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Slavic
Branch
Eastern
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Belarusian
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
7988
1
120
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Signed Forms
Belarusian Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
be
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bel
bul
ISO 639 2/B
bel
bul
ISO 639 3
bel
bul
ISO 639 6
bel
buls
Glottocode
bela1254
bulg1262
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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