Countries
Norway
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
National Language
Norway
  
Bulgaria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Interesting Facts
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
  
- 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
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Macedonian language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-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
hallo
  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Thank You
takk
  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Good Night
god natt
  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
Моля (Molja)
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bye
ha det
  
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Bulgaria
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
7.80 million
  
99+
Native Name
Norsk
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Standard Bulgarian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
buls
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
Norwegian 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 Norwegian and Bulgarian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Bulgarian language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Bulgarian word for "Thank You" is Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti). Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Bulgarian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Bulgarian Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Bulgarian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian 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 Norwegian and Bulgarian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Bulgarian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Bulgarian time required is 44 weeks.