Countries
Norway
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Interesting Facts
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
- 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
Swedish and Danish Languages
Macedonian language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2930
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
96
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
takk
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
god natt
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
god kveld
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
god morgen
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Vær så snill
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
unnskyld
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
ha det
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
30,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Sogn
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1958
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million7.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.21 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Balgarski
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
bulgare
German Name
Nynorsk
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Bulgarian people
Origin
c. 1300 AD
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Slavic
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
1888
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
bul
ISO 639 2/B
nor
bul
ISO 639 3
nor
bul
ISO 639 6
nor
buls
Glottocode
norw1258
bulg1262
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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