Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
European Union, Latvia
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
Latvia
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Latvian State Language Center
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 first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Lithuanian Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3033
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
69
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3624
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
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)
Sveiki
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
Paldies
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Kā jums klājas?
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Ar labunakti
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Labvakar
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Labdien
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Labrīt
Please
Моля (Molja)
lūdzu
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Piedodiet!
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
Uz redzēšanos
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
Es tevi mīlu
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Piedodiet!
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Livonian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Latvia
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Middle Latvian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Latvia
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
High Latvian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
France, Latvia
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
583
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million1.75 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.21 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.80 million1.75 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
9.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
latviešu valoda
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Lettish
French Name
bulgare
letton
German Name
Bulgarisch
Lettisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[ˈlætviən]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Latvians or Letts
Origin
9th Century
1530
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Baltic
Branch
Southern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Latvian
Language Position
889
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Latvian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bg
lv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
lav
ISO 639 2/B
bul
lav
ISO 639 3
bul
lav
ISO 639 6
buls
lav
Glottocode
bulg1262
latv1249
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
54-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic