Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
China, Mongolia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
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.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Turkish Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3035
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
613
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3620
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
Моля (Molja)
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
588
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.80 million5.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.21 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.80 million5.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
9.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
bulgare
mongol
German Name
Bulgarisch
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Mongols
Origin
9th Century
1224-1225
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
Slavic
Mongolian
Branch
Southern
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
8826
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bg
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
mon
ISO 639 2/B
bul
mon
ISO 639 3
bul
mon
ISO 639 6
buls
mon
Glottocode
bulg1262
mong1331
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
part of 44-BAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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