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Bulgarian and Japanese

Countries

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

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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Greetings

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)

Dialects

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
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Total No. Of Dialects

5831
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.80 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.21 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.80 million128.00 million
0 873
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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)

History

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

Code

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

Bulgarian and Japanese Alphabets

Bulgarian and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Bulgarian and Japanese. In Bulgarian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Bulgarian and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Bulgarian and Japanese languages. The Bulgarian phonology consist Bulgarian vowels and Bulgarian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Bulgarian greetings vs Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Bulgarian and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Bulgarian and Japanese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Bulgarian and Japanese dialects. Various dialects of Bulgarian and Japanese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Bulgarian are spoken in different Bulgarian Speaking Countries whereas Japanese Dialects are spoken in different Japanese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Bulgarian vs Japanese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Bulgarian dialects include: Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo, Panagyurishte. Japanese dialects include: Sanuki , Hakata. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Bulgarian and Japanese Speaking population

Bulgarian and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bulgarian and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Bulgarian and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bulgarian language is 0.21 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Bulgarian and Japanese on Bulgarian vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Bulgarian and Japanese Language Codes

Bulgarian and Japanese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Bulgarian and Japanese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.