ISO 639-3 · bulbul
Indo-European family
Bulgarian
български език
Bulgarian is a language of the South Slavic branch (Indo-European), spoken in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Ukraine and Serbia and 6 more countries. Wikidata counts about 9 m speakers (2014). Wikidata describes it as “Eastern South Slavic language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
bul- ISO 639-1
bg- Glottocode
bulg1262- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 42.75, 25.50
- Wikipedia
- 196 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
10countries
3scripts
4levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Bulgarian
The branches above Bulgarian, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Bulgariaofficial · 8 languages in the indexNorth Macedonia11 languages in the indexUkraine23 languages in the indexSerbia18 languages in the indexRomania18 languages in the indexGreece17 languages in the indexTurkey40 languages in the indexMoldova9 languages in the indexAlbania11 languages in the indexRussia139 languages in the index