Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
  
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.
  
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
  
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
Czech Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Czech-Slovak Language
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Slovak-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Ahoj
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
Ďakujem vám
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Ako sa máte?
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Dobrú noc
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Dobrý večer
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Dobré popoludnie
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Dobré ráno
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
Prosím
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Pardón!
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
Dovidenia
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Ľúbim Ťa
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Prepáčte!
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Eastern Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
  
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Central Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
  
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Western Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
  
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
slovenčina
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Slovakian, Slovencina
  
French Name
bulgare
  
slovaque
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Slowakisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Slovaks
  
Origin
9th Century
  
6th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Southern
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Proto-Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
Slovak
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
sk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
slk
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
slo
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
slk
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
slov1269
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
53-AAA-db
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic