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Countries

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

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Proto-Slavic Vocabulary

Alphabets

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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Greetings

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)

Dialects

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
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Total No. Of Dialects

5813
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.80 million276.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.21 %2.33 %
0 89
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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

History

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

Code

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

Bulgarian and Russian Alphabets

Bulgarian and Russian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Bulgarian and Russian. In Bulgarian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Bulgarian and Russian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Bulgarian and Russian 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 Russian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Bulgarian and Russian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Bulgarian and Russian Speaking population

Bulgarian and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bulgarian and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Bulgarian and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bulgarian language is 0.21 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Russian on Bulgarian vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Bulgarian and Russian Language Codes

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