Language code: bg
Technical information about ISO 639 language code bg
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The table below provides technical details for the Bulgarian language, designated by the bg code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Bulgarian Native Български език |
| Family | South Slavic |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Plural rules | |
| Language varieties | Eastern BulgarianWestern Bulgarian |
| Related languages | MacedonianSerbianCroatianSlovene |
| Key facts | Uses a 30-letter Cyrillic alphabet codified in 1945Almost all noun cases have disappeared, replaced by prepositional phrasesDefiniteness is shown with a suffixed article (-ът/-та/-то/-те)Verb system includes evidential forms that indicate information sourceEarliest preserved Slavic manuscripts (10th century) are in Old Bulgarian. |
| Sample phrase | Здравей, как си? |
| Character encodings | ISO 8859-5, Windows 1251, CP 866, MacCyrillic, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 |
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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.
Language presence globally
Speakers
5.5M
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Bulgarian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
Related locale codes
bg-BG – Bulgarian (Bulgaria)
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ