Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
آسف
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
bulgare
  
arabe
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Arabs
  
Origin
9th Century
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Southern
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Bulgarian and Arabic 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 Arabic greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bulgarian and Arabic language. Bulgarian word for "Hello" is Здравейте (Zdraveĭte) or Arabic word for "Thank You" is شكرا. Find more of such common Bulgarian Greetings and Arabic Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bulgarian vs Arabic Difficulty
The Bulgarian vs Arabic difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bulgarian Alphabets and Arabic 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 Arabic are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bulgarian and Arabic, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bulgarian is 44 weeks while to learn Arabic time required is 88 weeks.