Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Namibia, South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
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.
  
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
  
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
Dutch Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Dutch Language
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
Dankie
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Hoe gaan dit
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
goeie nag
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Goeienaand
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Goeie middag
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
goeie more
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
asseblief
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
jammer
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Ek het jou lief
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Verskoon my
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Baster Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Namibia
  
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
19.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
7.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
10.30 million
  
22
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
Afrikaans
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Cape Dutch
  
French Name
bulgare
  
afrikaans
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Afrikaans
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Afrikaners
  
Origin
9th Century
  
17th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Southern
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
Standard Afrikaans
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
af
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
afr
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
afr
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
afr
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
afrs
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
afri1274
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
52-ACB-ba
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic
  
Bulgarian and Afrikaans 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 Afrikaans greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bulgarian and Afrikaans language. Bulgarian word for "Hello" is Здравейте (Zdraveĭte) or Afrikaans word for "Thank You" is Dankie. Find more of such common Bulgarian Greetings and Afrikaans Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bulgarian vs Afrikaans Difficulty
The Bulgarian vs Afrikaans difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bulgarian Alphabets and Afrikaans 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 Afrikaans are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bulgarian and Afrikaans, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bulgarian is 44 weeks while to learn Afrikaans time required is 24 weeks.