Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Palau
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3099
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3614
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
Моля (Molja)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Hakata
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Kansai
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
kansai
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
5831
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.80 million128.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.21 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.80 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
9.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
日本語
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Nihongo
French Name
bulgare
japonais
German Name
Bulgarisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
9th Century
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Southern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Japanese
Language Position
888
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bg
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
bul
jpn
ISO 639 3
bul
jpn
ISO 639 6
buls
jpn
Glottocode
bulg1262
nucl1643
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic