Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
National Language
Spain
  
Bulgaria
  
Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  
- 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
French Language
  
Macedonian language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Spanish-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
hola
  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Thank You
Gracias
  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
How Are You?
Cómo estás?
  
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Good Night
Buenas Noches
  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Good Evening
Bonne soirée
  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes
  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good Morning
Buenos Días
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
Por Favor
  
Моля (Molja)
  
Sorry
triste
  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bye
adiós
  
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
I Love You
Te Quiero
  
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Excuse Me
Discúlpeme
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish
  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Where They Speak
Mexico
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
Cuba
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00
  
8
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
489.00 million
  
3
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
410.00 million
  
2
7.80 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
89.50 million
  
9
Not Available
  
Native Name
Español
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
espagnol; castillan
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Spanisch
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
210 BC
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
  
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
  
Standard Bulgarian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
  
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
es
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
spa
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
spa
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
spa
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
buls
  
Glottocode
stan1288
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-b
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available