Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Munda Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3030
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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)
Henda ho
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
Adi Johar
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
संध्यायान
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Boge Setak’
Please
Моля (Molja)
দয়া করে
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
দুঃখিত
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
Hariau
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Mahali
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
India
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Not present
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
-
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Not present
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
-
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
581
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million6.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.21 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.80 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
9.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
bulgare
santal
German Name
Bulgarisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
9th Century
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Southern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Santali
Language Position
8841
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bg
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
sat
ISO 639 2/B
bul
sat
ISO 639 3
bul
sat
ISO 639 6
buls
sat
Glottocode
bulg1262
sant1410
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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