Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
Abkhazia
  
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
  
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.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Not Available
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Abkhazia
  
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Caucasus
  
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
bulgare
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
9th Century
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Southern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
Abkhaz
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
abks
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Bulgarian and Abkhaz Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Bulgarian and Abkhaz greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bulgarian and Abkhaz language. Bulgarian word for "Hello" is Здравейте (Zdraveĭte) or Abkhaz word for "Thank You" is Иҭабуп (It̢abup). Find more of such common Bulgarian Greetings and Abkhaz Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bulgarian vs Abkhaz Difficulty
The Bulgarian vs Abkhaz difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bulgarian Alphabets and Abkhaz Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Bulgarian and Abkhaz are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bulgarian and Abkhaz, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bulgarian is 44 weeks while to learn Abkhaz time required is 27 weeks.