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Croatian vs Bulgarian


Bulgarian vs Croatian


Countries

Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  
Bulgaria, European Union  

Total No. Of Countries
9  
7
2  
13

National Language
Austria  
Bulgaria  

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

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Africa, Europe  

Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine  

Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics  
Institute for the Bulgarian language  

Interesting Facts
  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian  
Macedonian language  

Derived From
Church Slavonic  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
30  
12
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
6  
3

How Many Consonants
25  
15
36  
26

Scripts
Latin  
Cyrillic  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
bok  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)  

Thank You
hvala  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)  

How Are You?
kako si  
Как си? (Kak si?)  

Good Night
laku noć  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)  

Good Evening
dobra večer  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)  

Good Afternoon
dobar dan  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)  

Good Morning
dobro jutro  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)  

Please
molim  
Моля (Molja)  

Sorry
Oprostite  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)  

Bye
Doviđenja  
Довиждане (Doviždane)  

I Love You
Volim te  
Обичам те (Običam te)  

Excuse Me
Ispričavam se  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Chakavian  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Bulgaria  

How Many People Speak
660,000.00  
31
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Chakavian  
Panagyurishte  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Bulgaria  

Dialect 3
Shtokavian  
Pirdop  

Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania  
Bulgaria  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
5
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
79  
33
58  
32

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
89.00 million  
18
7.80 million  
99+

Speaking Population
89.00 %  
1
Not Available  

Native Speakers
5.60 million  
99+
7.80 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
1.25 million  
36
Not Available  

Native Name
hrvatski  
български (bãlgarski)  

Alternative Names
Hrvatski  
Balgarski  

French Name
croate  
bulgare  

German Name
Kroatisch  
Bulgarisch  

Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Croats  
Not Available  

History

Origin
9th century  
9th Century  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Slavic  

Branch
Not Available  
Southern  

Language Forms
  
  

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

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian  
Standard Bulgarian  

Language Position
23  
19
88  
99+

Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language  
Bulgarian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
hr  
bg  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hrv  
bul  

ISO 639 2/B
hrv  
bul  

ISO 639 3
hrv  
bul  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
buls  

Glottocode
croa1245  
bulg1262  

Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g  
53-AAA-hb  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Not Available  

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Croatian and Bulgarian Language History

Comparison of Croatian vs Bulgarian language history gives us differences between origin of Croatian and Bulgarian language. History of Croatian language states that this language originated in 9th century whereas history of Bulgarian language states that this language originated in 9th Century. 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 Croatian and Bulgarian Language History.

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

Croatian vs Bulgarian Difficulty

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

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