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Japanese and Bulgarian

Countries

Countries

Japan
Bulgaria, European Union

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Bulgaria

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Africa, Europe

Minority Language

Palau
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Institute for the Bulgarian language

Interesting Facts

  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  • 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

Korean Language
Macedonian language

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9930
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

56
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1436
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Cyrillic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

53
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Как си? (Kak si?)

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Добър ден (Dobãr den)

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Моля (Molja)

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
Довиждане (Doviždane)

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Обичам те (Običam te)

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Bulgaria

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Panagyurishte

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Bulgaria

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.009,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Pirdop

Where They Speak

kansai
Bulgaria

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.009,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3158
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million7.80 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.21 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million7.80 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million9.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
български (bãlgarski)

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Balgarski

French Name

japonais
bulgare

German Name

Japanisch
Bulgarisch

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Bulgarian people

History

Origin

1185
9th Century

Language Family

Japonic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Slavic

Branch

-
Southern

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian

Standard Forms

Japanese
Standard Bulgarian

Language Position

888
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Bulgarian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
bg

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
bul

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
bul

ISO 639 3

jpn
bul

ISO 639 6

jpn
buls

Glottocode

nucl1643
bulg1262

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
53-AAA-hb

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
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Japanese and Bulgarian Alphabets

Japanese and Bulgarian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Bulgarian. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Bulgarian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Japanese and Bulgarian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Bulgarian languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Bulgarian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Bulgarian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Japanese 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 Japanese and Bulgarian dialects. Various dialects of Japanese and Bulgarian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Japanese are spoken in different Japanese Speaking Countries whereas Bulgarian Dialects are spoken in different Bulgarian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Japanese vs Bulgarian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Japanese dialects include: Sanuki, Hakata. Bulgarian dialects include: Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo , Panagyurishte. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Japanese and Bulgarian Speaking population

Japanese and Bulgarian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Bulgarian languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Bulgarian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % 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 Japanese and Bulgarian on Japanese vs Bulgarian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Bulgarian Language Codes

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