Countries
Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Estonia, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
Estonia, Gambia
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
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Institute of the Estonian 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.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Finnish
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3027
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
69
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3618
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Tere
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
aitäh
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
kuidas sul läheb
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Head ööd
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Tere päevast
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Tere hommikust
Please
Моля (Molja)
Palun
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Vabandust
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
Head aega
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
ma armastan sind
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Vabandage
Dialects
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
How Many People Speak
NANA
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Tartu
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Georgia, South Estonia
How Many People Speak
NANA
700
80000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Idamurre
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
588
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million1.10 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
NANA
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.80 million0.95 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NANA
0.01
400
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Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
eesti keel
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Eesti keel
French Name
bulgare
estonien
German Name
Bulgarisch
Estnisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Estonians
History
Origin
9th Century
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Southern
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Estonian
Language Position
88NA
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Estonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
bg
et
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
est
ISO 639 2/B
bul
est
ISO 639 3
bul
est
ISO 639 6
buls
Not Available
Glottocode
bulg1262
esto1258
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
Not Available
Agglutinative