Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
29
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
Austria
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
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
-
Church Slavonic
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
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
bok
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
hvala
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
kako si
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
laku noć
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
dobar dan
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
dobro jutro
Please
Моля (Molja)
molim
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Oprostite
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
Doviđenja
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
Volim te
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Croatia
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Croatia
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
5879
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.80 million89.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.21 %89.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.80 million5.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
9.00 million1.25 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Hrvatski
French Name
bulgare
croate
German Name
Bulgarisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Croats
Origin
9th Century
9th 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
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
8823
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bg
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
bul
hrv
ISO 639 3
bul
hrv
ISO 639 6
buls
hrv
Glottocode
bulg1262
croa1245
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
-
Fusional, Synthetic