Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
günaydın
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
23
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
bulgare
  
turc
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Turkish
  
Origin
9th Century
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Southern
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic