Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
Georgia
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
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.
  
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Kartli
  
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
4.30 million
  
99+
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
bulgare
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Georgians
  
Origin
9th Century
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Southern
  
Branch
Southern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
Modern Georgian
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
nucl1302
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic