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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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