Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Bulgaria
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Моля (Molja)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Olonets
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Olonets
Dialect 3
Pirdop
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Novgorod
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
Русский
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Russki
French Name
bulgare
russe
German Name
Bulgarisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Not Available
Russians
Origin
9th Century
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
buls
Not Available
Glottocode
bulg1262
russ1263
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Bulgarian and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bulgarian and Russian language. Bulgarian word for "Hello" is Здравейте (Zdraveĭte) or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Bulgarian Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bulgarian vs Russian Difficulty
The Bulgarian vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bulgarian Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bulgarian and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bulgarian is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.