Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
Austria
  
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
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
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.
  
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
bok
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
molim
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
bulgare
  
croate
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Croats
  
Origin
9th Century
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
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
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Bulgarian and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bulgarian and Croatian language. Bulgarian word for "Hello" is Здравейте (Zdraveĭte) or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Bulgarian Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bulgarian vs Croatian Difficulty
The Bulgarian vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bulgarian Alphabets and Croatian 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 Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bulgarian and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bulgarian is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.