Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-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)
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
bitte
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
229.00 million
  
8
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
bulgare
  
allemand
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Germans
  
Origin
9th Century
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Southern
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
deus
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic