Countries
European Union, Slovenia
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Interesting Facts
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
- 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
Serbo-Croatian
Macedonian language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2530
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
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
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
Hvala
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Kako se imate?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
Lahko noč
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
Dober večer
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
Dober dan
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Prosim
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
Oprostite
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
Nasvidenje
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
Ljubim te
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
Oprostite
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Prekmurje Slovene
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Hungary, Slovenia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
80,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Resian
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Italy
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Styrian
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Slovenia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
4858
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
2.50 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
2.50 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Slovenščina
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Slovenian, Slovenscina
Balgarski
French Name
slovène
bulgare
German Name
Slowenisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Slovenes
Bulgarian people
Origin
972-1093
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Slovene
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
2888
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovene Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sl
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slv
bul
ISO 639 2/B
slv
bul
ISO 639 3
slv
bul
ISO 639 6
slv
buls
Glottocode
slov1268
bulg1262
Linguasphere
53-AAA-f
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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