bulTechnical information about ISO 639 language code bul
The table below provides technical details for the Bulgarian language, designated by the bul code from the ISO 639-2 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Bulgarian Native Български език |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Eastern BulgarianWestern Bulgarian |
| Related languages | MacedonianSerbianBosnianCroatianSlovene |
| Key facts | Has post-posed definite articles attached to nounsModern orthography uses 30 Cyrillic letters standardized in 1945Retains almost no noun case inflection except vocative, unusual for SlavicPossesses a rich evidential mood system that marks information sourceOld Church Slavonic, the first literary Slavic language, evolved from early Bulgarian dialects |
| Sample phrase | Здравей, как си? |
| Character encodings | ISO 8859-5, Windows 1251, CP 866, MacCyrillic, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 |
| Supported in Localizely |
The Bulgarian language, identified by the code bul, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.
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