Language code: bul

Technical 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

bul

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

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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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