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
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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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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)
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
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
3158
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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
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
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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