Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Bulgaria, European Union
National Language
Russia
Bulgaria
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Interesting Facts
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
- 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Macedonian language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Olonets
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Olonets
Bulgaria
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Bulgaria
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Russki
Balgarski
French Name
russe
bulgare
German Name
Russisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Russians
Not Available
Origin
1000 AD
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Standard Bulgarian
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
buls
Glottocode
russ1263
bulg1262
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
53-AAA-hb
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available
Russian and Bulgarian Speaking population
Russian and Bulgarian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Bulgarian languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Bulgarian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Bulgarian language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Russian and Bulgarian on Russian vs Bulgarian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Russian and Bulgarian Language Codes
Russian and Bulgarian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Russian and Bulgarian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.