Language code: bg

Technical information about ISO 639 language code bg

The table below provides technical details for the Bulgarian language, designated by the bg code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

bg

Name

Official

Bulgarian

Native

Български език

Family
South Slavic
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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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

*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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