Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
211
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Turkish Language Association
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3029
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Merhaba
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Nasılsın?
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Tünaydın
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
günaydın
Please
Моля (Molja)
lütfen
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
üzgünüm
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
Hoşçakal
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pirdop
Gagauz
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
589
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million75.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.21 %0.95 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.80 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
9.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
bulgare
turc
German Name
Bulgarisch
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Turkish
Origin
9th Century
c. 1350
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Turkic
Branch
Southern
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
8819
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bg
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
tur
ISO 639 2/B
bul
tur
ISO 639 3
bul
tur
ISO 639 6
buls
tur
Glottocode
bulg1262
nucl1301
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic