Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
German and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
dankjewel
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
goede Nacht
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
goedenavond
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
goedemiddag
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
goedemorgen
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
alsjeblieft
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
sorry
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
vaarwel
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Ik hou van jou
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
pardon
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Gronings
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Low Saxon
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Limburgian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Belgium, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
38
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
22.00 million
  
35
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
6.00 million
  
25
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
Nederlands
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Hollands, Nederlands
  
French Name
bulgare
  
néerlandais; flamand
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Niederländisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Dutch people
  
Origin
9th Century
  
AD 450-500
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Southern
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
Standard Dutch
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
nl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
nld
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
dut
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
nld
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
mode1257
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
52-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic