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Lithuanian vs Bulgarian


Bulgarian vs Lithuanian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Lithuania   
Bulgaria, European Union   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Lithuania   
Bulgaria   

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

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Africa, Europe   

Minority Language
Poland   
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine   

Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language   
Institute for the Bulgarian language   

Interesting Facts
  • Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
  • "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
  
  • 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
Latvian   
Macedonian language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200   
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
32   
14
30   
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12   
9
6   
3

How Many Consonants
20   
10
36   
26

Scripts
Latin   
Cyrillic   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
Sveiki   
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)   

Thank You
Ačiū   
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)   

How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?   
Как си? (Kak si?)   

Good Night
Labanakt   
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)   

Good Evening
Labas vakaras   
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)   

Good Afternoon
Laba diena   
Добър ден (Dobãr den)   

Good Morning
Labas rytas   
Добро утро (Dobro utro)   

Please
Prašom   
Моля (Molja)   

Sorry
atsiprašau   
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)   

Bye
Ate   
Довиждане (Doviždane)   

I Love You
Aš myliu tave   
Обичам те (Običam te)   

Excuse Me
Atsiprašau   
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Samogitian   
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo   

Where They Speak
Lithuania   
Bulgaria   

How Many People Speak
500,000.00   
34
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Aukštaitian   
Panagyurishte   

Where They Speak
Lithuania   
Bulgaria   

Dialect 3
Curonian   
Pirdop   

Where They Speak
Lithuania   
Bulgaria   

Total No. Of Dialects
10   
10
58   
32

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
3.00 million   
99+
7.80 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
3.00 million   
99+
7.80 million   
99+

Native Name
lietuvių kalba   
български (bãlgarski)   

Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy   
Balgarski   

French Name
lituanien   
bulgare   

German Name
Litauisch   
Bulgarisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Lithuanians   
Not Available   

History

Origin
c. 1503   
9th Century   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Slavic   

Branch
Baltic   
Southern   

Language Forms
  
  

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

Standard Forms
Lithuanian   
Standard Bulgarian   

Language Position
Not Available   
88   
99+

Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language   
Bulgarian Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
lt   
bg   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
lit   
bul   

ISO 639 2/B
lit   
bul   

ISO 639 3
lit   
bul   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
buls   

Glottocode
lith1251   
bulg1262   

Linguasphere
54-AAA-a   
53-AAA-hb   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic   
Not Available   

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Lithuanian and Bulgarian Language History

Comparison of Lithuanian vs Bulgarian language history gives us differences between origin of Lithuanian and Bulgarian language. History of Lithuanian language states that this language originated in c. 1503 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 Lithuanian and Bulgarian Language History.

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

Lithuanian vs Bulgarian Difficulty

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

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