Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
National Language
Bulgaria
Germany
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
hallo
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
Danke
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
guten Tag
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
guten Morgen
Please
Моля (Molja)
bitte
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Verzeihung
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
Tschüs
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Germany
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Pirdop
Texas German
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Texas
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
bulgare
allemand
German Name
Bulgarisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Not Available
Germans
Origin
9th Century
6th Century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
bulg1262
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Bulgarian and German 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 German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bulgarian and German language. Bulgarian word for "Hello" is Здравейте (Zdraveĭte) or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Bulgarian Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bulgarian vs German Difficulty
The Bulgarian vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bulgarian Alphabets and German 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 German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bulgarian and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bulgarian is 44 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.