Bulgarian Language: South Slavic language
Bulgarian (български език, ) is an Indo-European language.
It is spoken mainly in Bulgaria and parts of North Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine and Moldova. The Bulgarian language is similar to the Macedonian and the Serbian languages, which are part of the South Slavic branch of Slavic languages. There are nearly 9 million people in 2011 who use Bulgarian as their main language.
| Bulgarian | |
|---|---|
| български | |
| Native to | Bulgaria, Turkey, Serbia, Greece, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and among emigrant communities worldwide |
| Region | Southeastern Europe |
Native speakers | 9 million (2005–2012) |
Indo-European
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| Cyrillic (Bulgarian alphabet) Bulgarian Braille | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Bulgaria European UnionMount Athos |
Recognised minority language in | |
| Regulated by | Institute for the Bulgarian language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Институт за български език към Българската академия на науките (БАН)) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | bg |
| ISO 639-2 | bul |
| ISO 639-3 | bul |
| Linguasphere | 53-AAA-hb < 53-AAA-h |
Bulgarian is a part of the so-called Balkan "Sprachbund" or linguistic group, which also includes Greek, Macedonian, Romanian, Albanian, and the Torlakian dialect of the Serbian language. This does not mean the languages are necessarily related, but that they share certain loanwords and grammatical characteristics due to frequent contact over the years.
Alphabet
| А а /a/ | Б б /b/ | В в /v/ | Г г /g/ | Д д /d/ | Е е /ɛ/ | Ж ж /ʒ/ | З з /z/ | И и /i/ | Й й /j/ |
| К к /k/ | Л л /l/ | М м /m/ | Н н /n/ | О о /ɔ/ | П п /p/ | Р р /r/ | С с /s/ | Т т /t/ | У у /u/ |
| Ф ф /f/ | Х х /x/ | Ц ц /ʦ/ | Ч ч /tʃ/ | Ш ш /ʃ/ | Щ щ /ʃt/ | Ъ ъ /ɤ̞/, /ə/ | Ь ь /◌ʲ/ | Ю ю /ju/ | Я я /ja/ |
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