Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
bulgare
  
népalais
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
9th Century
  
19 BC
  
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
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative