Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3033
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic
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)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Моля (Molja)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Olonets
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Olonets
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
5813
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million276.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.21 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.80 million166.00 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)
Русский
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Russki
French Name
bulgare
russe
German Name
Bulgarisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Russians
Origin
9th Century
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Slavic
Branch
Southern
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Standard Russian
Language Position
887
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bg
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
rus
ISO 639 2/B
bul
rus
ISO 639 3
bul
rus
ISO 639 6
buls
rus
Glottocode
bulg1262
russ1263
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic