Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
Ukraine
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
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3033
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3622
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
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)
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
Моля (Molja)
будь ласк
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Podillian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Volynian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Steppe
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
5815
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million39.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.21 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.80 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
9.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
bulgare
ukrainien
German Name
Bulgarisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Ukrainians
Origin
9th Century
1561
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Slavic
Branch
Southern
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
8826
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bg
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
bul
ukr
ISO 639 3
bul
ukr
ISO 639 6
buls
ukr
Glottocode
bulg1262
ukra1253
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic