Countries
Countries
Estonia, European Union
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- 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.
Similar To
Finnish
Macedonian language
Derived From
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Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2730
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
96
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1836
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Tere
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
aitäh
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
Head ööd
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Palun
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
Vabandust
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
Head aega
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Pirdop
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
858
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million7.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.21 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.95 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million9.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Balgarski
French Name
estonien
bulgare
German Name
Estnisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Bulgarian people
History
Origin
13th century
9th Century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Slavic
Branch
Finnic
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Estonian
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
2288
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
et
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
bul
ISO 639 2/B
est
bul
ISO 639 3
est
bul
ISO 639 6
est
buls
Glottocode
esto1258
bulg1262
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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