Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
European Union, Latvia
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
Latvia
  
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
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Latvian State Language Center
  
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.
  
- The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
  
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
Lithuanian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Sveiki
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
Paldies
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Kā jums klājas?
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Ar labunakti
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Labvakar
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Labdien
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Labrīt
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
lūdzu
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Piedodiet!
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
Uz redzēšanos
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Es tevi mīlu
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Piedodiet!
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Livonian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Latvia
  
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Middle Latvian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Latvia
  
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
High Latvian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
France, Latvia
  
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
1.75 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
1.75 million
  
99+
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
latviešu valoda
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Lettish
  
French Name
bulgare
  
letton
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Lettisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Latvians or Letts
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1530
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Baltic
  
Branch
Southern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
Latvian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Latvian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
lv
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
lav
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
lav
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
lav
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
not Available
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
latv1249
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
54-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Bulgarian and Latvian 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 Latvian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bulgarian and Latvian language. Bulgarian word for "Hello" is Здравейте (Zdraveĭte) or Latvian word for "Thank You" is Paldies. Find more of such common Bulgarian Greetings and Latvian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bulgarian vs Latvian Difficulty
The Bulgarian vs Latvian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bulgarian Alphabets and Latvian 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 Latvian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bulgarian and Latvian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bulgarian is 44 weeks while to learn Latvian time required is 44 weeks.