Countries
Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
21
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
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Not Available
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3036
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3628
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
kedụ
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
dalụ
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
ka chi fo
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
Моля (Molja)
Biko
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Ndo
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
Not Available
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
ngọpụ
Dialects
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Enuani
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
NANA
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
NA1,500,000.00
700
80000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Not present
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Not Available
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
5820
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
NANA
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.80 million25.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NANA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
igbo
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Ibo
French Name
bulgare
igbo
German Name
Bulgarisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
Not Available
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Not Available
Igbo people
History
Origin
9th Century
30th Century BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Kwa
Branch
Southern
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Standard Igbo
Language Position
8857
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
bg
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
bul
ibo
ISO 639 3
bul
ibo
ISO 639 6
buls
Not Available
Glottocode
bulg1262
nucl1417
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative