Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3048
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3636
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, 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)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Моля (Molja)
कृपया
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Doteli
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Nepal
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Nepal
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
5812
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.21 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.80 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
9.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
bulgare
népalais
German Name
Bulgarisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
9th Century
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Southern
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Nepali
Language Position
8859
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bg
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
nep
ISO 639 2/B
bul
nep
ISO 639 3
bul
npi
ISO 639 6
buls
nep
Glottocode
bulg1262
nepa1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative