Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Israel
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
Israel
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Israel
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Africa, Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Poland
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Academy of the Hebrew Language
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.
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Arabic and Aramaic languages
Derived From
-
Aramaic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3022
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
60
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3622
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Hebrew
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
שלום (Shalom)
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
תודה (Toda)
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
Please
Моля (Molja)
בבקשה (bevekshah)
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
סליחה! (Slicha)
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
להתראות (Lehitraot)
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
בבקשה!
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Israel
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Samaritan Hebrew
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Israel, Palestine
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pirdop
Yemenite Hebrew
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Israel
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
587
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million9.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.21 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.80 million4.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
9.00 million5.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Israeli, Ivrit
French Name
bulgare
hébreu
German Name
Bulgarisch
Hebräisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Hebrew-speaking people
Origin
9th Century
1000 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Semitic
Branch
Southern
Canaanitic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Modern Hebrew
Language Position
8823
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Signed Hebrew
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bg
he
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
heb
ISO 639 2/B
bul
heb
ISO 639 3
bul
heb
ISO 639 6
buls
heb
Glottocode
bulg1262
hebr1246
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
12-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic