bg
Technical information about ISO 639 language code bg
Technical information about bg
language code (Bulgarian) is available below.
Bulgarian belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically to the South Slavic subgroup. It is the official language of Bulgaria and is recognized as a minority language in Serbia and Ukraine, among other countries. While primarily written in the Cyrillic script (Bulgarian alphabet), a Latin script version known as the Banat Bulgarian alphabet is used by the Banat Bulgarian community in Romania, Serbia, and Hungary. It is estimated that there are more than 7.6 million speakers worldwide.
Speakers
5.5M
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Bulgarian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
bg-BG
– Bulgarian (Bulgaria)
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