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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Bulgaria, European Union

Total No. Of Countries

72
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Bulgaria

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa, Europe

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
Institute for the Bulgarian language

Interesting Facts

  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German 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

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Macedonian language

Derived From

Albanian Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2630
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

106
0 32
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How Many Consonants

936
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)

Thank You

Danke
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
Как си? (Kak si?)

Good Night

gute Nacht
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)

Good Evening

guten Abend
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
Добър ден (Dobãr den)

Good Morning

guten Morgen
Добро утро (Dobro utro)

Please

bitte
Моля (Molja)

Sorry

Verzeihung
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)

Bye

Tschüs
Довиждане (Doviždane)

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
Обичам те (Običam te)

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Bulgaria

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.009,200,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Panagyurishte

Where They Speak

Germany
Bulgaria

How Many People Speak

820,000.009,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Pirdop

Where They Speak

Texas
Bulgaria

How Many People Speak

6,000.009,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2858
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million7.80 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.21 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million7.80 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million9.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
български (bãlgarski)

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Balgarski

French Name

allemand
bulgare

German Name

Deutsch
Bulgarisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]

Ethnicity

Germans
Bulgarian people

History

Origin

6th Century AD
9th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Slavic

Branch

Western
Southern

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Standard Bulgarian

Language Position

988
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Bulgarian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

de
bg

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
bul

ISO 639 2/B

ger
bul

ISO 639 3

deu
bul

ISO 639 6

deus
buls

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
bulg1262

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
53-AAA-hb

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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German and Bulgarian Alphabets

German and Bulgarian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Bulgarian. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Bulgarian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn German and Bulgarian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Bulgarian languages. The German phonology consist German vowels and German consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at German greetings vs Bulgarian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Bulgarian are Most Spoken Languages.

All German and Bulgarian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Bulgarian dialects. Various dialects of German and Bulgarian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Bulgarian Dialects are spoken in different Bulgarian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Bulgarian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Bulgarian dialects include: Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo , Panagyurishte. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

German and Bulgarian Speaking population

German and Bulgarian speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Bulgarian languages can be compared. The total count of German and Bulgarian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Bulgarian language is 0.21 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Bulgarian on German vs Bulgarian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Bulgarian Language Codes

German and Bulgarian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Bulgarian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.