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Bulgarian vs Igbo


Igbo vs Bulgarian


Countries

Countries
Bulgaria, European Union  
Nigeria  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Bulgaria  
Nigeria  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe  
Africa  

Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine  
Equatorial Guinea  

Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture  

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 Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
  • Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
  

Similar To
Macedonian language  
Not Available  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
30  
12
36  
18

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
8  
5

How Many Consonants
36  
26
28  
18

Scripts
Cyrillic  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
52 weeks  
12

Greetings

Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)  
kedụ  

Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)  
dalụ  

How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)  
kedụ ka ịmere  

Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)  
ka chi fo  

Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)  
mgbede ọma  

Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)  
ehihie ọma  

Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)  
ụtụtụ ọma  

Please
Моля (Molja)  
Biko  

Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)  
Ndo  

Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)  
Not Available  

I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya  

Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)  
ngọpụ  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo  
Enuani  

Where They Speak
Bulgaria  
Nigeria  

Dialect 2
Panagyurishte  
Ngwa  

Where They Speak
Bulgaria  
Nigeria  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1,500,000.00  
22

Dialect 3
Pirdop  
Not present  

Where They Speak
Bulgaria  
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
58  
32
20  
18

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
7.80 million  
99+
25.00 million  
40

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
7.80 million  
99+
25.00 million  
32

Native Name
български (bãlgarski)  
igbo  

Alternative Names
Balgarski  
Ibo  

French Name
bulgare  
igbo  

German Name
Bulgarisch  
Ibo-Sprache  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[iɡ͡boː]  

Ethnicity
Not Available  
Igbo people  

History

Origin
9th Century  
30th Century BC  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Niger-Congo Family  

Subgroup
Slavic  
Kwa  

Branch
Southern  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian  
Standard Igbo  

Language Position
88  
99+
57  
99+

Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bg  
ig  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bul  
ibo  

ISO 639 2/B
bul  
ibo  

ISO 639 3
bul  
ibo  

ISO 639 6
buls  
Not Available  

Glottocode
bulg1262  
nucl1417  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Agglutinative  

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Bulgarian and Igbo Language History

Comparison of Bulgarian vs Igbo language history gives us differences between origin of Bulgarian and Igbo language. History of Bulgarian language states that this language originated in 9th Century whereas history of Igbo language states that this language originated in 30th Century BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Bulgarian and Igbo Language History.

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Bulgarian and Igbo 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 Igbo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bulgarian and Igbo language. Bulgarian word for "Hello" is Здравейте (Zdraveĭte) or Igbo word for "Thank You" is dalụ. Find more of such common Bulgarian Greetings and Igbo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Bulgarian vs Igbo Difficulty

The Bulgarian vs Igbo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bulgarian Alphabets and Igbo 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 Igbo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bulgarian and Igbo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bulgarian is 44 weeks while to learn Igbo time required is 52 weeks.

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