Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
-
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3033
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3628
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
Моля (Molja)
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Kartli
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
5820
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.80 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.21 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.80 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
9.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
bulgare
géorgien
German Name
Bulgarisch
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Georgians
Origin
9th Century
5th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Southern
Branch
Southern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Modern Georgian
Language Position
88120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
bg
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
kat
ISO 639 2/B
bul
geo
ISO 639 3
bul
kat
ISO 639 6
buls
kat
Glottocode
bulg1262
nucl1302
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic