Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
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.
  
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hindi.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
380.00 million
  
5
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
bulgare
  
hindi
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
9th Century
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Southern
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
Standard Hindi
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
hins
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic