Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
University of Sarajevo
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.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Serbian and Croatian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3030
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3625
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Zdravo
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
Hvala
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Kako si?
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Laku noc
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Dobro veće
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Dobar dan
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Dobro jutro
Please
Моля (Molja)
molim vas
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Oprostite
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
Zbogom
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
Volim te
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.0013,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Croatia
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00660,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Kajkavian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Croatia
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0021,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
586
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million3.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.21 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.80 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
9.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Bosanski Jezik
French Name
bulgare
bosniaque
German Name
Bulgarisch
Bosnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Bosniaks
Origin
9th Century
19th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Southern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Bosnian
Language Position
8824
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Bosnian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bg
bs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
bos
ISO 639 2/B
bul
bos
ISO 639 3
bul
bos
ISO 639 6
buls
boss
Glottocode
bulg1262
bosn1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
part of 53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-