Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3030
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3625
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
Моля (Molja)
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Southeastern Serbia
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Serbia
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0012,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
583
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.80 million8.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.21 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.80 million8.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
9.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Montenegrin
French Name
bulgare
serbe
German Name
Bulgarisch
Serbisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Serbs
Origin
9th Century
11th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Southern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Standard Serbian
Language Position
8844
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bg
sr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
srp
ISO 639 2/B
bul
srp
ISO 639 3
bul
srp
ISO 639 6
buls
srp
Glottocode
bulg1262
serb1264
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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