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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Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
7.80 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
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
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
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 1
ru
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
buls
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Russian 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 Russian and Bulgarian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Bulgarian language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Bulgarian word for "Thank You" is Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti). Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Bulgarian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Bulgarian Difficulty
The Russian vs Bulgarian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian 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 Russian and Bulgarian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Bulgarian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Bulgarian time required is 44 weeks.