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Countries

Countries

Bulgaria, European Union
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

23
0 46
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National Language

Bulgaria
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Africa, Europe
Asia

Minority Language

Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Regulated By

Institute for the Bulgarian language
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan

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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
  • Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.

Similar To

Macedonian language
Pashto and Balochi Languages

Derived From

-
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3032
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

66
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3623
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic
Arabic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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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Greetings

Hello

Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
سلام

Thank You

Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
متشکرم

How Are You?

Как си? (Kak si?)
چطور هستید?

Good Night

Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
شب بخیر

Good Evening

Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
عصر بخیر

Good Afternoon

Добър ден (Dobãr den)
بعد از ظهر بخیر

Good Morning

Добро утро (Dobro utro)
صبح به خیر

Please

Моля (Molja)
لطفا

Sorry

Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
متاسف

Bye

Довиждане (Doviždane)
خدا حافظ

I Love You

Обичам те (Običam te)
من شما را دوست دارم

Excuse Me

Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
ببخشيد!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Western Persian

Where They Speak

Bulgaria
Iran, Iraq

How Many People Speak

9,200,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Panagyurishte
Dari Persian

Where They Speak

Bulgaria
Afganistan

How Many People Speak

9,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Pirdop
Tajik Persian

Where They Speak

Bulgaria
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

9,000,000.007,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

5812
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.80 million65.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.21 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.80 million65.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

9.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

български (bãlgarski)
فارسی

Alternative Names

Balgarski
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian

French Name

bulgare
persan

German Name

Bulgarisch
Persisch

Pronunciation

[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]

Ethnicity

Bulgarian people
Persian people

History

Origin

9th Century
1500 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Southern
Iranian

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Old Persian and Middle Persian

Standard Forms

Standard Bulgarian
Persian

Language Position

8823
1 120
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Signed Forms

Bulgarian Sign Language
Persian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

bg
fa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

bul
fas

ISO 639 2/B

bul
per

ISO 639 3

bul
pes

ISO 639 6

buls
pers

Glottocode

bulg1262
fars1254

Linguasphere

53-AAA-hb
58-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
Synthetic

Bulgarian and Persian Alphabets

Bulgarian and Persian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Bulgarian and Persian. In Bulgarian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Bulgarian and Persian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Bulgarian and Persian 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 Persian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Bulgarian and Persian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Bulgarian and Persian 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 Persian dialects. Various dialects of Bulgarian and Persian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Bulgarian are spoken in different Bulgarian Speaking Countries whereas Persian Dialects are spoken in different Persian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Bulgarian vs Persian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Bulgarian dialects include: Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo, Panagyurishte. Persian dialects include: Western Persian , Dari Persian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Bulgarian and Persian Speaking population

Bulgarian and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bulgarian and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Bulgarian and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bulgarian language is 0.21 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. 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 Persian on Bulgarian vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Bulgarian and Persian Language Codes

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