Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
Japan
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
Japan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Asia, Pacific
  
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Palau
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
  
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
Korean Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Kana
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
ありがとう (Arigatō)
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
おはよう (Ohayō)
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
さようなら (Sayōnara)
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
すみません (Sumimasen)
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Sanuki
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Kagawa
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,000,000.00
  
28
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Hakata
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Fukuoka
  
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Kansai
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
kansai
  
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
128.00 million
  
14
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
128.00 million
  
9
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
日本語
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Not Available
  
French Name
bulgare
  
japonais
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Japanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Japanese (Yamato)
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1185
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Japonic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Southern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
Japanese
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Signed Japanese
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
ja
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
nucl1643
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
45-CAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Bulgarian and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bulgarian and Japanese language. Bulgarian word for "Hello" is Здравейте (Zdraveĭte) or Japanese word for "Thank You" is ありがとう (Arigatō). Find more of such common Bulgarian Greetings and Japanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bulgarian vs Japanese Difficulty
The Bulgarian vs Japanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bulgarian Alphabets and Japanese 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 Japanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bulgarian and Japanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bulgarian is 44 weeks while to learn Japanese time required is 88 weeks.