Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Bulgaria
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Macedonian language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
Please
  
Моля (Molja)
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bye
Bye
  
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
I Love You
I love you
  
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
7.80 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
Not Available
  
Native Name
English
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
anglais
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Standard Bulgarian
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
buls
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Not Available