Countries
South Africa
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Bulgaria
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
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Institute for the Bulgarian language
Interesting Facts
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
- 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
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Macedonian language
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
106
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4336
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Unjani
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
Molo
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Ndicela
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
South Africa
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
South Africa
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hlubi
Pirdop
Where They Speak
South Africa
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
19.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
958
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Balgarski
French Name
xhosa
bulgare
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Bulgarian people
Origin
16th Century
9th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Slavic
Branch
Bantu
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
2188
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
bul
ISO 639 2/B
xho
bul
ISO 639 3
xho
bul
ISO 639 6
xho
buls
Glottocode
xhos1239
bulg1262
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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