Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
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
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
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.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Czech Language
Derived From
-
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3046
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
615
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3638
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Ahoj
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Dobré ráno
Please
Моля (Molja)
Prosím
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Pardón!
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
Dovidenia
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.005,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.005,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
584
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million5.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.21 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.80 million5.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
9.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
bulgare
slovaque
German Name
Bulgarisch
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[ˈsləʊvæk]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Slovaks
Origin
9th Century
6th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Slavic
Branch
Southern
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Slovak
Language Position
8827
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Slovak Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bg
sk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
slk
ISO 639 2/B
bul
slo
ISO 639 3
bul
slk
ISO 639 6
buls
slk
Glottocode
bulg1262
slov1269
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
53-AAA-db
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic