Здравей!
say it: “zdra-VEY”
Bulgarian
in its own words: български
- Speakers
- 8 million (estimate)
- Family
- Indo-European – Slavic
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Bulgaria, Greece, Moldova, Republic of, The Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Türkiye, Ukraine
- Script
- Cyrillic
- Official language
- Bulgaria
Fun fact
Bulgarian has lost noun case inflection and has a postposed definite article. In Bulgaria a nod traditionally means “no” and a head shake “yes”.