Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Yoruba Academy
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.
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3029
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3617
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
e dupe
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
e kaasan
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
e kaaro
Please
Моля (Molja)
Jowo
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
binu
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
bye
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Ede
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0010,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
5820
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.80 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.21 %0.42 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.80 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
9.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
bulgare
yoruba
German Name
Bulgarisch
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Yoruba people
Origin
9th Century
4 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Western Sudanic
Branch
Southern
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Yorùbá
Language Position
8849
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bg
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
yor
ISO 639 2/B
bul
yor
ISO 639 3
bul
yor
ISO 639 6
buls
yor
Glottocode
bulg1262
yoru1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating