Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
China, Mongolia
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
China, Mongolia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
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.
  
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
  
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
Turkish Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Mongolia
  
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Ordos Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
5.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
5.70 million
  
99+
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Not Available
  
French Name
bulgare
  
mongol
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Mongolisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1224-1225
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Mongolic family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Mongolian
  
Branch
Southern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
mn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
mon
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
mon
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
mon
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
mong1331
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
part of 44-BAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available