Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
Lithuania
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
Poland
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Commission of the Lithuanian 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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Latvian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3032
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3620
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Sveiki
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
Ačiū
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Labanakt
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Laba diena
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Labas rytas
Please
Моля (Molja)
Prašom
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
atsiprašau
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
Ate
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Curonian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
5810
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.80 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.21 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.80 million3.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
9.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
bulgare
lituanien
German Name
Bulgarisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Lithuanians
Origin
9th Century
c. 1503
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Southern
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Lithuanian
Language Position
8844
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bg
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
lit
ISO 639 2/B
bul
lit
ISO 639 3
bul
lit
ISO 639 6
buls
lit
Glottocode
bulg1262
lith1251
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic