Countries
Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Interesting Facts
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written 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
Czech Language
Macedonian language
Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language
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Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4630
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
156
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3836
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
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Ahoj
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
Ďakujem vám
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Ako sa máte?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
Dobrú noc
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
Dobrý večer
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
Dobré ráno
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Prosím
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
Pardón!
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
Dovidenia
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
Ľúbim Ťa
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
Prepáčte!
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Slovak
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Slovak
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
458
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
5.20 million7.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.20 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
slovenčina
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina
Balgarski
French Name
slovaque
bulgare
German Name
Slowakisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsləʊvæk]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Slovaks
Bulgarian people
History
Origin
6th Century
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Slavic
Branch
Western
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Slavic
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Slovak
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
2788
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovak Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
sk
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slk
bul
ISO 639 2/B
slo
bul
ISO 639 3
slk
bul
ISO 639 6
slk
buls
Glottocode
slov1269
bulg1262
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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