Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3053
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3643
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Molo
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Unjani
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Molo
Please
Моля (Molja)
Ndicela
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
South Africa
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Thembu
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
South Africa
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
South Africa
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
589
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.80 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.21 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.80 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
9.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Balgarski
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
bulgare
xhosa
German Name
Bulgarisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
9th Century
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Benue-Congo
Branch
Southern
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
isiXhosa
Language Position
8821
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bg
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
xho
ISO 639 2/B
bul
xho
ISO 639 3
bul
xho
ISO 639 6
buls
xho
Glottocode
bulg1262
xhos1239
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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