Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Middle East
  
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
Farsi Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Silaw
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
Sipas
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Tu çawa yî?
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Şev xweş
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Evare baş
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Bayanit bash
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
Bê zehmet
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bibûre
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
Be xêr çî
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Ez te hez dikem
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Bê zehmet
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Northern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Central Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Southern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Eastern Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,000,000.00
  
12
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
38
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
21.00 million
  
36
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Not Available
  
French Name
bulgare
  
kurde
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Kurdisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Kurds
  
Origin
9th Century
  
16th century CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Southern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
Kurdish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
ku
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
kur
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
kur
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
kur
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
kurd1259
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
58-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Bulgarian and Kurdish Speaking population
Bulgarian and Kurdish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bulgarian and Kurdish languages can be compared. The total count of Bulgarian and Kurdish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bulgarian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Bulgarian and Kurdish on Bulgarian vs Kurdish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Bulgarian and Kurdish Language Codes
Bulgarian and Kurdish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Bulgarian and Kurdish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.