Countries
Nigeria
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Bulgaria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Interesting Facts
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
kedụ
  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Thank You
dalụ
  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Good Night
ka chi fo
  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
Biko
  
Моля (Molja)
  
Sorry
Ndo
  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bye
Not Available
  
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Enuani
  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Bulgaria
  
Dialect 2
Ngwa
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
22
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
7.80 million
  
99+
Native Name
igbo
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Ibo
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
igbo
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Igbo people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
30th Century BC
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Kwa
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
  
Standard Bulgarian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ig
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
ibo
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
buls
  
Glottocode
nucl1417
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Not Available
  
Igbo 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 Igbo and Bulgarian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Igbo and Bulgarian language. Igbo word for "Hello" is kedụ or Bulgarian word for "Thank You" is Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti). Find more of such common Igbo Greetings and Bulgarian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Igbo vs Bulgarian Difficulty
The Igbo vs Bulgarian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Igbo 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 Igbo and Bulgarian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Igbo and Bulgarian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Igbo is 52 weeks while to learn Bulgarian time required is 44 weeks.