Bulgarian (language)

Bulgarian
български bǎlgarski
Native to	Bulgaria, Serbia, Albania, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and among emigrant communities worldwide
Region	Southeastern Europe
Ethnicity	Bulgarians
Native speakers	9 million (2005–2012)
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic South Slavic Eastern South Slavic Bulgarian
Dialects	Bulgarian dialects
Writing system	Cyrillic (Bulgarian alphabet) Bulgarian Braille Latin (Banat Bulgarian Alphabet) (Banat Bulgarian dialect)
Official status
Official language in	Bulgaria  European Union
Recognised minority language in	Czech Republic  Moldova  Ukraine  Serbia  Albania  Romania
Regulated by	Institute for the Bulgarian language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Институт за български език при Българската академия на науките (БАН))
Language codes
ISO 639-1	bg
ISO 639-2	bul
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	bulg1262
Linguasphere	53-AAA-hb < 53-AAA-h
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Bulgarian /bʌlˈɡɛəriən/, /bʊlˈ-/ (Bulgarian: български bǎlgarski, pronounced [ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]) is an Indo-European language, a member of the Southern branch of the Slavic language family.