Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
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
  
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 earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
  
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
Bengali and Assamese
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Oriya-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Baleswari
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
India
  
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Ganjami
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
India
  
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Kosli
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
33.00 million
  
34
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
33.00 million
  
28
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
  
French Name
bulgare
  
oriya
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Oriya-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈoɽia]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Odias
  
Origin
9th Century
  
3 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
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
Standard Odia
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
or
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
ori
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
ori
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
ori
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
macr1269
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available