Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3029
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
69
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3620
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
hallo
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
takk
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
god natt
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
god kveld
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
god morgen
Please
Моля (Molja)
Vær så snill
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
unnskyld
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
ha det
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Sogn
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
5819
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.80 million5.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.21 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.80 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
9.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
Norsk
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Norsk
French Name
bulgare
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Bulgarisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Norwegians
Origin
9th Century
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Germanic
Branch
Southern
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
8818
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bg
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
nor
ISO 639 2/B
bul
nor
ISO 639 3
bul
nor
ISO 639 6
buls
nor
Glottocode
bulg1262
norw1258
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional