Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
Bulgaria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
- 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
Finnish
  
Macedonian language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
Palun
  
Моля (Molja)
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bye
Head aega
  
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Bulgaria
  
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Bulgaria
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
7.80 million
  
99+
Native Name
eesti keel
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
estonien
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
13th century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Standard Bulgarian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
buls
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Not Available
  
Estonian 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 Estonian and Bulgarian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Bulgarian language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Bulgarian word for "Thank You" is Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti). Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Bulgarian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Estonian vs Bulgarian Difficulty
The Estonian vs Bulgarian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian 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 Estonian and Bulgarian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Bulgarian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Bulgarian time required is 44 weeks.