Similarities Between Bulgarian and Slovak

As two Slavic languages, Bulgarian and Slovak descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, descending from earlier Proto-Balto-Slavic language. There are over 20 different Slavic languages, divided into 3 major subgroups, with Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian belonging to the East group, Polish, Czech and Slovak to the West group, and Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian and Bulgarian to the South group.
In today’s language challenge, we will compare some of the similarities between these two Slavic languages, with Aneliya (Bulgarian speaker) and Linda (Slovak speaker) challenging each other with a list of words and sentences.
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Slovak (slovenčina / slovenský jazyk) is a West Slavic language. Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, and is also native to the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and a portion of western Ukraine.
Bulgarian (български) is the official language of Bulgaria and recognized as a minority language in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Ukraine, Serbia, Albania, and Romania.
Both languages have a rich literary tradition. Bulgarian literature is one of the oldest among the Slavic peoples, going back to the times of Simeon I of the First Bulgarian Empire. The reign of Simeon I was a period of immense cultural prosperity and enlightenment, which later became known as the Golden Age of Bulgarian culture. Among the many great Bulgarian poets and writers there are Hristo Botev (Христо Ботев), considered a national hero by Bulgarians, who wrote many notable poems such as Обесването на Васил Левски "Obesvaneto na Vasil Levski" (The Hanging of Vasil Levski), Моята молитва "Moyata molitva" (My Prayer), Хайдути "Hayduti" (Hajduks), and many others; Ivan Vazov (Иван Вазов), often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature"; Stefan Stambolov (Стефан Стамболов), who also served as the 9th Prime Minister of Bulgaria; Nikola Vaptsarov (Никола Вапцаров); Grigor Parlichev (Григор Пърличев); Peyo Yavorov (Пейо Крачолов); Geo Milev; Pencho Slaveykov (Пенчо Славейков); Dora Gabe and Elisaveta Bagryana, who are considered first ladies of Bulgarian women's literature; and many others.
Slovak literature has a very long history behind it. Among numerous Slovak poets and writers there are Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Ľudovít Velislav Štúr, Ján Kollár, Vladimír "Vlado" Clementis, Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Margita Figuli, Ján Hollý, Andrej Sládkovič, and countless others.

[Bahador Alast]

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[brad titt]

@Faizullah no

[Marko Miljković]

Loved it. Good to see Slavic languages again. You should do Bulgarian with Serbian and Macedonian.

[Şevket Coşkun]

It is nice to see our Şimal here but she needs to do Turkish next time

[wyqtor]

@Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya Why do you guys always have to be so grumpy and miss all the fun from life? Maybe people like Bahador are just trying to be friendly to everyone, and of course since nearly every culture out there is more relaxed than that of Arab Muslims, it will always look to you as if the 'infidels' are trying to lead them astray.

[Revert]

That was fun as a Serbian/Croatian speaker. I understood both without any difficulty.

[tsaicio]

Im from Poland. Most of the words are the same in Poland, yet when I was in Bulgaria I understood perhaps 15% of spoken bulgarian, while among Slovaks I catch 80%,

[Meqdad Irshead]

Iam Palestinian studied in ukraine . I speak russian and understand Ukrainian , it is interesting to me to look at all languages of slavic qroup , i can quess the meaning of the sound. And i can understand the meaning of the writing of any language

[Cerebrum Maximus]

​@Ban To be fair it's the same from my perspective, a Bulgarian. It entirely depends on region, exposure, lexicon (both words speaker knows and words chosen), and willingness to participate. (As well as time to think and how nervous, drunk or tired you are).

[KATYA PUSSER]

Same here! I am russian)

[Ban]

@A. N. Well i could understand word when you say it, but when ur talking it's hard to understand

[Roats KM]

As a Bulgarian I am glad you included my language for 2nd time, greetings to all Slovak brothers, Slavic too, family! ❤️🇧🇬🇸🇰😘

[D MAK]

SLav meaning With Lion where different from S Löwen who used the word Löwe instead of Lav.SLovak are a Czech mercenaries whom King Mátyás hired to protect Ugar borders due to which they adopted Ugar culture but retained they Czech language who by default where a pro German group who didn’t knew the word Lav but Löwe and are fundamentally related to SLöwen that are today known as SLoven.

[Roats KM]

@Ban Pretty close! ❤️👍

[Ban]

I love how much similar is our language 🇷🇸❤️🇧🇬

[Dana Gerocova]

Ďakujeme 😍pozdrav zo Slovenska do Bulharska 👍❤

[uncurling_lifelines]

I am Bulgarian and I just arrived in Bratislava for a few days and I see this on my youtube homepage 🇧🇬🇸🇰 great timing!

[HeroManNick132]

@Cerebrum Maximus Вече ти казах, че не съм! Луд ли си? Само на няколко! Вие пък да не се побъркахте нещо бе, а? 😂

[Cerebrum Maximus]

​@HeroManNick132 абе, ти на всяко видео за България ли си?

[HeroManNick132]

Какво съвпадение хаха.

[Ignisan]

For all Slavic speakers: The sound change from G to H is one of the most important things to keep in mind when dealing with speakers of other Slavic languages. Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech and Slovak have this sound change from G to H.

[Žiga Babnik]

Interestingly, while standard Slovenian doesn't have it, one of the Slovenian dialects in the westernmost part of Slovenia, along the border with Italy and some 30 km towards east have it, it's in the Goriška and Vipavska regions of Primorska (Littoral) region. Here we pronounce g in exactly same fashion like above mentioned languages. It's exclusively in that region of Slovenia and doesn't exist in the rest of the country.

[HeroManNick132]

I just did a research and Polish also do have that sound like Czech and Slovak but it's not used very often. It's like Russian. Only in ''легкий, мягкий'' G is pronounced like H. In Polish the word Herbata has this sound but just like Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech and Slovak - G is rare there while H in Russian and Polish is rare but it's there. Also if you count Rusyn it also has that as well.

[Cerebrum Maximus]

*Another important Slavic sound change!!:* V to U or W! I noticed this when I visited Croatia. Words which would have a "v" in Bulgarian, were pronounced with a u or even w sound instead. Compare: Bg vs Cro: Внук (vnuk) vs unuk • this means "grandson". Влез (vlez) vs ulaz • Ulaz means "enterance". Vlez mean "enter!" or "come in"

[Jason M.]

And Russian goes in the opposite direction as Ukrainian, Slovak and Czech. It even turns H into G. I was surprised that in Russian Ohio is pronounced Ogaio, and the leader of Nazi Germany was called Gitler.

[HeroManNick132]

@Ivan Hus They have the the G sound still but they write it as *Ґ* which is rarely used in Ukrainian. Unlike Belarusian it doesn't have the G sound either. They pronounce it the same way as the Greek "Г" which is the same way as in these languages a.k.a. the soft "H" sound.

[Luchezar Dossev - Lucho von Doss]

Wonderful video! I am from Bulgaria and I heartily congratulate brotherly Slovak Republic! Bulgarians and Slovaks are very close peoples! Maybe many people don't know, but after the liberation of Bulgaria, many Czechs and Slovaks helped to build the new Bulgarian country. This happened during the time of the Bulgarian king Ferdinand I. In this time many Slovak villages have also settled in northern Bulgaria, which unfortunately returned after the occupation of Bulgaria by the Soviet Union - today's Russia in 1944.

[Luchezar Dossev - Lucho von Doss]

@Enkai pritie Yes, it is true, we are close to the Greeks and Italians

[Enkai pritie]

Yes but Slovaks and Bulgarians are not the same, I can tell you, I’m from Spain 🇪🇸 and I live in Slovakia and Bulgarians are Slavic but the way of communication and relationships in Bulgaria is more similar to south Europe and Middle East than Central Europe.

[Emanuela Černeva]

It's fun when you understand both languages and speak Bulgarian. Greetings to our Slovak neighbors! 🇧🇬🇨🇿/🇸🇰

[Blago Banov]

@Emanuela Černeva Děkuji Vám. Přečetl jsem desítky knih v češtině, potom jde to snadno.

[Emanuela Černeva]

@Blago Banov Českou gramatiku, jak se zdá, umíte. Prima!

[Blago Banov]

@Emanuela Černeva Je to na dlouhé povídání, ale když to řeknu krátce: osud .

[KEROS]

@Blago Banov Samee here, but I'm living in Slovakia :D 🇧🇬/🇸🇰

[Emanuela Černeva]

@Blago Banov Why did you decide to move to Czechia? I was born here already, but we love visiting BG every summer.

[Ewa Wiśniewski]

Nice to see Slavic languages again. Hopefully Polish soon 😍

[Lukáš_SVK]

Oh I would love to see Polish again 😊🥰 I love Polish. So much love to Polish brothers and sisters from Slovakia 🇸🇰❤️🇵🇱

[JonJonBoi]

I would love to see a Polish and Czech comparison

[JonJonBoi]

I love Poland 🇵🇱

[Pope Urban II]

Poland is a strong Catholic nation

[el desconocido]

The bulgariam woman is so elegant

[Пламен Георгиев]

The Bulgarian women are the most beautiful and elegant in the world!

[HeroManNick132]

@Cerebrum Maximus Не

[Cerebrum Maximus]

​@HeroManNick132 Абе, ти във всяко видео за България ли се намираш?

[Claus]

@* wut xD

[Harj Singh Waraich]

Thank you girls you were great, and our new host did a wonderful job.👍🏼

[May]

As a Bosnian, I understood everything also.

[Žiga Babnik]

@HeroManNick132 Ја сам Словенац и знам ћирилицу, јер сам научио српски, на којем вам и сад пишем, јер Бугари боље разумете српски него словеначки. Ја могу много да разумем бугарски док га читам али не разумем много кад говорите. Тренутно учим украјински помало, учио сам мало и руски, а због Православних Литургија разумем и црквенословенски.

[Andrzej Dobrowolski]

@HeroManNick132 Młodzi ludzie (znam bułgarskie słowo '' hora'' bo słucham muzyki po bułgarsku z moim przyjacielem z Targowiszte) dosyć szybko uczą się nowych języków bo mają dobrą pamięć i świeży umysł. Ale między naszymi językami jest mnogo fałszywych przyjaciół jak na przykład : godina to po Bułgarsku year a godzina po Polsku to znaczy hour a po Polsku year to rok, chas to po Bułgarsku hour a po Polsku time. Miło poznawać interesujących ludzi w Internecie o tak późnej godzinie jak człowiek nie może spać i ogląda filmy na temat swojego hobby 😂 Ja też rozumiem 50 % Bułgarskiego w formie pisanej i 10 % w mówionej.

[HeroManNick132]

@Andrzej Dobrowolski Разбрах горе-долу наполовина какво ми каза, въпреки че устно почти няма нищо да разбера на полски, но хей все пак се уча докато съм жив, като хората викат тук. Ти си на 21 години значи? Е и аз може да се каже, че съм почти на твоя възраст, което е супер :D Аз съм почти на 20, хаха какво съвпадение!

[Andrzej Dobrowolski]

@HeroManNick132 Tak, ja umiem czytać cyrylicę, ale znam dosyć dobrze Ukraiński i Rosyjski. Nauczyłem się ich bo miałem bliski kontakt z Ukraincami i Białorusinami w robocie. Mam 21 lat, żyję na zachodzie Polski i mam jednego przyjaciela z Bułgarii z miasta Targowiszte :)

[HeroManNick132]

@Andrzej Dobrowolski Можеш да четеш на кирилица? Рядко виждам поляк да може да чете на кирилица, освен ако е учил руски. Май като гледам ти обожаваш славянските езици?

[Rositsa Petrova]

In Bulgaria we also say zhelezo but it is now considered a dialect form. Long ends for adjectives are also common in Bulgarian but now archaic but still can be found, i.e Veliki Preslav. I could not stop laughing when the lady said that Russian is hard like Bulgarian.

[Stefan Dimitrov]

@Cerebrum Maximus също и "железен". някой трябва да седне и да оправи българския :Д

[Cerebrum Maximus]

Аз казвам "желязо", обаче "железопътни релси"

[A. N.]

The so called yat border in bulgarian dialects. In the west we may change ya to e, which is how those words are spelled in most other slavic languages. In the east they change the e to ye or go as far as i sometimes(тиливизия :D). In the past such words(with this variable ya/e) were spelled with a single letter Ѣ so we had желѢзо/желѢзни, while now we have желязо/железни instead.

[Lion Heart]

yea its utterly untrue. Russian is actually softer than ukrainian. Urkainian has harder sounds in common with south slavic languages, and russian is much softer compared to bulgarian lol.

[Alex Z]

2:42 Actually in western Bulgaria we say this word the same way as it is in Slovak. There's a vowel shift in the bulgarian language. In the east they tend to say the words with Ya (Я) as for example in this word желЯзо (jelyazo) whereas in the west we would say желЕзо (jelezo). The eastern model became the official bulgarian language after the communist coup d'etat.

[FyrHunter_SVK]

Slovak, not Slovenian.

[Luka]

Finally some Slavs again 🇷🇸❤🇧🇬🇸🇰

[hyperborean72]

great game, thank you. wonderful ladies. it amazed me as a Russian how close Bulgarian and Slovak language between them and the Russian - I could guess almost everything

[HeroManNick132]

Защо си умопомрачен от факта, незнаейки колко българският език е близък до руския? 😅

[Franco Nicolás Méndez]

More Bulgarian please!!!

[SJOC]

So smooth conversationz amazing. I love slavic languages 🤘

[cimbalok]

Very enjoyable! I understood all the Slovak and most of the Bulgarian. Thank you for a nice video!

[HeroManNick132]

You Czech/Polish?

[Alexx KS]

Great video! What about a Romanian and Aromanian comparison? That would be interesting

[bobma4kata]

You crazy !?Then both languages will annihilate each other, its basic physics

[jahanas22]

Another excellent video. I understood most of the vocabulary.

[mark mager]

Wow a lot of words that similar to Russian!! But heyyy finally the videos came back to the traditional form. Congratulations

[Piroska Racz]

The Slavic languages are interesting. Especially for myself the lesser heard of languages such as Rusyn and it's regional dialects Lemko and others....Upper and Lower Sorbian/Wendish..... Kašubian...now extinct Polabian...Hutzul..... I find them all fascinating.

[Cerebrum Maximus]

The Bulgarian woman was so smart. Usually when people do these videos, they grab the dumbest most obscure Bulgarians which can't even use common sense to figure out a sentence. The fact she guessed the word for pigeon from the /x~g/ sound shift, based on a pattern she spotted was ingenious, and none of the other Bulgarians KZbinrs hire apart fro. one maybe two would have guessed that. - Thank you so much for hiring an adequate Bulgarian so I can enjoy the video, from a Bulgarian.

[HeroManNick132]

Съгласен съм с тебе! И забелязвам, че тоя специфичен Х звук го има само в чешкия, словашкия, беларуския, украинския, русинския и донякъде полския, както и руския в специфични думи като - ''легко, мягкий'' или ''herbata'' например, докато южнославянските народи го нямат тоя звук. Той е нещо като английското ''H,'' докато нашето е като ''CH'' на чешки, словашки и полски.

[عائفہ]

Good to see Simal after so long🌸

[Raywa]

some polish words are different, like "zvuk" we say "dźwięk" and "zena" means "wife" not "woman" although female for example is "żeński" but there are other words for it too XDD

[HeroManNick132]

"Жена" can mean "wife" too in Bulgarian even though "wife" is "съпруга." "Dźwięk" is still similar to "zvuk" though even though it is slightly different. Female is pretty much in Bulgarian the same as the Polish ""żeński" - "женски."

[Pierre Abbat]

Куй железо пока горячо! When I took Russian at Purdue several of us had shirts with a Boilermaker with his hammer next to a huge letter Ж in this saying. I recognized желязо right away. I found the Slovak sentences easier to understand than the Bulgarian. The Bulgarian past tense (aorist/imperfect) is lost in East and West Slavic, leaving only the present/future and perfect (-l).

[Ruben Badalian]

I want to learn Bulgarian in the future because it's very similar to Serbian (which is a language I'm studying now)

[gggg]

Hi. As azerbaijanian - former Soviet republic I know russian and 90% same in russian with 1 ward more or less in the wards and some different letters order. Salam from Baku.

[Dora la Explora]

Воистину салам)))

[Anton Danylchenko]

As a Ukrainian I understood all separate Bulgarian and Slovak words and both Slovak sentences. But I did not understand Bulgarian sentences at all. I know that they contain some common words (like "warm" and "evening"), but they were pronounced so quickly and in so unusual way that it was really hard to catch them.

[Žiga Babnik]

@Anton Danylchenko Дякую.

[Anton Danylchenko]

@Žiga Babnik Привіт. Дякую за цікавість до української мови. Успіхів у вивченні мови.

[Žiga Babnik]

Привіт. Я словенець, навчаюся українською мовою.

[Anton Danylchenko]

@HeroManNick132 Thanks. In a written form those sentences are completely understandable from the first look.

[HeroManNick132]

I may help you :) 1st sentence: На детската площадка имаше дете, което плачеше. (Щ in Bulgarian is pronounced like ШТ, not ШЧ like Ukrainian or silent Ш like in Russian just a small disclaimer.) 2nd sentence: Тази вечер ще бъде много топло. ("Ъ" is like a schwa sound that is not very typical sound for the Slavic languages despite the closest sound that you have that it is not exactly the same is the Russian/Belarusian "Ы" and the Ukrainian "И" sound. I think in some words in Russian like "тигр, театр" has this sound but it is so rare that most Russians are having hard time pronouncing this sound and tend to pronounce it as "Ы" when I heard some Russians speaking Bulgarian.)

[loganandoreo]

I know a few polish words and I understood a bit of Slovak. The Slovak word for yellow which is “žltý” is similar to the polish word for yellow “żółty” this is interesting!

[A. N.]

​@HeroManNick132 I'm bulgarian who lived in CZ and spent a lot of time in SK. They tend to skip the Ъ or use any a vowel when it's around L or R, in the video you have example for the L žltý. Here's a czech tong-twister which looks horrifying for non-slavic speakers - strč prst skrz krk. Now just add the Ъ before/after the R and you know how to spell it without much pain. The same is valid for the ex-yu slavic languages too, but they tend to have less of those words then cz/sk. The words Srbija and Hrvatska are an obvious example. The O would be used instead more in Russian/Ukrainian, the way they spell България is Болгария/Болгарія, instead of the more internationally accepted U.

[Robertosław Iksiński]

@loganandoreo Slovak/Czech/Bulgarian: dnes = Old Polish: dnieś / New Polish: dziś )

[HeroManNick132]

@loganandoreo Lol these are pretty much the same as Bulgarian jeden - jeden - един (edin) dźis - dnes - днес (dnes) król - kráľ - крал (kral) usta - ústa - уста (usta) ząb - zub - зъб (zŭb)

[loganandoreo]

I found a few more similarities between Polish and Slovak! jeden-jeden dźis-dnes król-kráľ usta-ústa ząb-zub

[HeroManNick132]

Seems most Slavic languages use O instead like in Bulgarian a SCHWA sound.

[Alexei Abrikosov]

Bulgarian and Russian are very close in ways that you may not imagine. It's not rare to see Russians and Bulgarians understand each other while speaking solely in their native tongues.

[ThaDa Yu]

@Добромир Вълов Да, у праву си, 1944. је Тито декретом прогласио нови македонски језик и дао му на хиљаде српских речи и српску азбуку, да га удаљи од бугарског и приближи српском. Македонци и данас "днес" гледају српско ТВ, слушају српску музику, читају српске књиге итд.

[ThaDa Yu]

@Debna Daebna Да, 1944. је Тито декретом створио македонски језик, дао му српску азбуку а не бугарску, и убацио у њега на хиљаде чисто српских речи ("думи"). Како се данашње српске службе мешају у унутрашње работе Македоније? Наведите примере ако може.

[Debna Daebna]

@ThaDa Yu само 36 години сте в Македония през средновековието, ние 1000+, а дори тогава езиците ни не са били особено различни между български и сръбски, за да имате каквото и да било влияние над българите в Македония. По-скоро въпросното влияние е от новата пропаганда 1913 - 1941 и по-късно 1944, та чак до сега чрез УДБА, КОС, които се месят във вътрешните работи на тази малка държава от объркани българи.

[CMC Nadejda Надежда]

Excellent!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Btw, are we going to have Bulgarian - Persian? 😍

[CMC Nadejda Надежда]

@Bahador Alast my intention wasn't to give any kind of pressure. But because a Bulgarian speaking lady was found I just had this thought. Thank you for replying! 🙏🏻

[Bahador Alast]

Thank you! Soon hopefully! I have a lot of videos planned and on the go :)

[Mehdi]

Hi Bahador. Please invite these beauties one more time. 😍 thank you for fruitful contents!

[Peter Parajka]

I love your style ❤️thatš honour .. so cute you are.... I am from Slovakia...Peter proud of you... Som na teba hrdý....

[Ventzislav Vassilev]

Finally Bulgarian. Great video. Thanks.

[Tim L]

Good video. Also interesting to see/hear difference between a south slavic language and a west slavic language. Maybe make it more interesting by creating more of a game out of it. Not just saying words back and forth. Just suggestion not meant as negative comment.

[Siôn Jobbins]

Cyrilic is not difficult for Slavs! It's a very sensible alphabet especially designed for Slavic languages, it would take a Slav about 15 minutes to learn and the rest they'd pick up from context. I say this as a Welsh speaker who learned the cyrilic alphabet for a weekend visit to Moscow, it's not difficult, only the soft vowels are difficult for non-Slav speakers to get their heads around. But otherwise it's a great alphabet, better than Latin. Why do so many Slavs see this is as a problem and why are so many of them surprised by how similar the different languages are?

[HeroManNick132]

@S B Й is basically И but shorter pronounced. Even in Bulgarian and Russian this letter is called "И кратко" оr "И краткое." Just like the Belarusian "У short" or - "У нескадовае" or "У кароткае" - "Ў" which is a unique letter than only in the Belarusian alphabet exists kinda like the Bulgarian "Ъ" letter despite Russian also have it but no sound even though you have it in the words "театр, тигр." Also this is the Russian one. Keep in mind as I mentioned not every Cyrillic is the same despite the Russian, Bulgarian and Mongolian Cyrillic are the most indentical. Mostly the Bulgarian and the Russian one. Also Ы is like hard I sound that is equivalent of the Bulgarian letters - ЪЙ. I think E in Russian is more likely pronounced as "Ye" while Ё is "Yo." I think "Щ" in Russian is more likely pronounced as silent "Sh" like the word "chavalier" while in Ukrainian is "Shch" and Bulgarian "Sht."

[Ondřej Matějka]

For me as a Czech, it is hard becuase it's very confusing, they have some latin letters which are pronounce differently and most of cyrillic letters looks very complicated and weird to me, I just can't remember what letter is that and they have many letters for combined sounds like ŠČ and other combinations, it's not so easy to remember that for me, we don't even have such sounds in Czech so it's everything confusing.

[HeroManNick132]

The answer probably they are just lazy to find a way to learn how to read it. Heck, even the Croats speak the same language as Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins but to be more separated they don't use the Cyrillic version and only the Latin - plus in schools in Croatia it is not teached unlike these countries (especially Serbia, where it is required as far as I know to learn the Cyrillic alphabet despite they use both Latin and Cyrillic script). This is like how Hindi and Urdu are the same language but 2 different scripts. And I agree. Not to mention that the Cyrillic alphabet has more letters than the Latin alphabet. But keep in mind not every Cyrillic alphabet has the same letter pronunciation. For example: "E" in Russian and Belarusian is pronounced like "ЙЭ", while in the rest of Cyrillic using countries it is just like the Russian, Belarusian "Э." "Щ" is an interesting letter that exists only in Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Russian alphabet and it is pronounced in 3 different ways: in Bulgarian it is "ШТ," Ukrainian - "ШЧ," and Russian - like silent/soft "Ш" sound. "Г" in most Slavic languages it is pronounced as "G" but in Ukrainian and Belarusian - like a soft "H" sound and it is funny how Belarusian don't have a "G" sound like Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian and Bulgarian and even Ukrainian despite "G" is rarely used there and it written as "Ґ" "И" in all Slavic languages it is written as "I" except in Ukrainian that is pronounced like the Russian/Belarusian "Ы" sound. Also Belarusian doesn't have this letter either and they use the Ukrainian "I" sound which is exactly like the Latin "I" "Ъ" letter exists only in the Bulgarian and Russian alphabet but unlike Russian that doesn't have any sound in Bulgarian it is pronounced as "Uh" or like a "schwa" sound like in the word "rubber." Or in the video as she said "гълъб" which means pigeon. Most Russians who speak Bulgarian tend to pronounce this sound as "Ы" even though they are similar sounds but not the same and in fact that they have some words that have this sound but most of them forget that it exists like in "тигр, театр." And from all Slavic languages as far as I know only Russian changes the "O" sound like "A" when it is unstressed, while in others no matter it is always "O." Also there are some other Turkic and Finno-Ugric languages in Russia and Central Asia that use the Cyrillic alphabet and even the Mongolian language itself and they have also some unique letters but unfortunately I don't know how to pronounce them, unless if you haven't learn Turkish too so some of the sounds 100% will be there too.

[miguelbass]

nice one to practice my Bulgarian (and learn some Slovak)

[Robert Edwards]

Glad to see the in-person platform is back!

[Володимир Ушаков]

Bulgarian and Slovakian brothers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Stormy]

Just stopping by to say thank you for the video and i love the new host Great way to spice things up

[Brad Calizaya]

Please, more videos with Şimal as host (guest, standing model, que salga en cada video mejor, etc.), por el amour de deus. If you don't, sono pronto a morire. :'(

[Kv Kovel]

Дуже гарна дівчина- словачка! В неї дуже гарне плаття з вишивкою! І також дівчина - болгарка теж симпатична!

[Сельский байкер]

поржал,всем привет из России!💪

[Monarchy of Jack 👑 [Alliances in description]]

Wah!! they are pretty much similar. 😃 Can anybody please tell me - is there any similarities between Turkish and Bulgarian languages?

[The Anti-Imperialist]

@يسمن ن doz nutz

[يسمن ن]

@The Anti-Imperialist deez nutz

[The Anti-Imperialist]

@يسمن ن that's all you got? Just cause you don't know history. It's okay kid. One day you'll read a book

[The Anti-Imperialist]

@يسمن ن facts seem to scare you

[Daniël van R.]

1:00 Indeed. Where Belarussian, Ukrainian, Czech and Slovak tend to use /h/, the other Slavic lingos go for /g/: hrad/horod/grad/gród. (Thereby not said that BY/UA/CZ/SK don't have /g/; they just use it differently.)

[jolevangelista]

@Ondřej Matějka pretty much same logic applies to Russian. But as was noted there are more words starting from hard g (г) although soft g is very common as well

[Ondřej Matějka]

@HeroManNick132 We just pronounce what is easier to pronounce, when you have name of some town, for example Prostějov, all people pronounce F at the end, becuase it's just impossible to say V there, but when you say "Jedu do Prostějova" (I am going to Prostějov), there is pronounced V.

[HeroManNick132]

@Ondřej Matějka Pretty much in Bulgarian "В" is also can be pronounced as "Ф" just like Czech. For example; "молив - моливи" (pencil/pencils). Singular form is mostly pronounced as "molif" but plural is "molivi."

[HeroManNick132]

@Simply channel Isn't it weird how you love to replace some words with "Х" that are originally with "Г" like: "Хитлер - Гитлер, Босна и Херцеговина - Босна и Герцеговина, хидро - гидро" and so on.

[Ondřej Matějka]

@Prof. Spudd Maybe we don't have letter F in original Czech words, but we pronounce V as F very often.

[Bogdan Jašović]

Željezo is more common in Croatian. In Serbian we say for iron - "Gvožđe/Гвожђе" /gvozhdye/.

[Ivan Hus]

@Red Flower I thought the word mrkva was only used in Croatia. It’s interesting that the word mrkva is a word of Slavic root, while šargarepa is of Hungarian origin. Perhaps (I suppose) the word śargarepa is used in Vojvodina, while in southern Serbia the word mrkva. Then there are other very strange linguistic influences. For example, in Bosnia and Serbia the Austrian word Paradajz (tomato) is used, while in Croatia (which unlike the other two nations has undergone an Austrian influence for centuries) the Slavic word rajčica is used (also I think only in czech is used the same word, other slavic languages used a latin word for tomato, or the austrian version). Perhaps the Croatian language is more conservative for purely Slavic words (such as month names)

[Red Flower]

Well in Serbian we use both but it depends on the region some say "gvožđe" some say "železo or željezo", some use both egually, for example we call ironworks (place where iron is smelted or iron goods made) "železara" and "gvožđara" is ironmongery (a place where screws, tools, wires, iron nails are sold or iron goods are manufactured). In Serbian we usually have more words for one thing like carrot - "mrkva" and "šargarepa"; nightmare - "noćna mora" and "košmar"; clock - "sat" and "časovnik" (sat and čas also mean hour); iron nails - "ekseri" and little less used "gvozdeni klin" and ect.

[HeroManNick132]

@Svetoslav Stanchev И ,,гвоздей" за единствено число.

[Svetoslav Stanchev]

@Guerrière Juive Also in Bulgarian "гвоздеи" /gvozdеi/ means iron nails.

[Guerrière Juive]

It sounds like Russian "гвозди" /gvozdi/ which means iron nails

[Macêdonians BDO]

More Serbian please!

[Muzaffer Turhan]

Şimal ablam ortalığı ateşe vermiş

[Цветан Оболенский]

Hey, everything is not tough, everything is not straight. “Hand” sounds the same for us. Straightly identical, which is surprising. Ne takoe zhestkoe u nas vsjo. Dlan u nas takzhe po zvuchaniju, chto udivitelno. Tut skoree naoborot v russkom ochen mnogo mjagkih zvukov v sravnenii s zapadnymi i yuzhnymi, sami poslushaite. :3

[सुनील सलामे मराठी]

SIR I AM FROM INDIA I LIKE YOUR INITIATIVE LOVE IRAN FROM 🇮🇳

[A. P.]

Beautiful Slovak high cheek bones lovely. Very nice to watch

[Св Петаргајтанн]

После овог видеа, Бугари(у ствари Бугарке) су ми милији него пре! 😉

[Pope Urban II]

May the Lord bless our Catholic brothers and sisters in Slovakia.

[Dark Shinigami]

The Bulgarian girl is the same from the video "you know you are dating a Bulgarian woman when..."

[Eva T.]

so that's why she looks so familiar!

[אילירי{🇦🇱}]

As an Albanian I understood everything since I speak Serbo-Croatian fluently...

[אילירי{🇦🇱}]

@Ne Gece Ne Gündüz 🎗 Teşeküller ❤🤩 Arnavutluk'den Selamlar 🇦🇱❤🇹🇷😘

[Ne Gece Ne Gündüz 🎗]

@אילירי{🇦🇱} Google da gördüğün her şey doğru değil . Neyse ben senin samimiyetine inanıyorum Türkiyeden Selamlar 🇹🇷❤🇦🇱😘

[אילירי{🇦🇱}]

@Ne Gece Ne Gündüz 🎗 Tekrar senin buldum Ama bir Türk yaptı Arnavut ve ben'de google ve gormustum o Preşevalı Arnavut ama bilmem. Maybe Türk Osmanli çunku o vaktı turkleri vardı I hope I wrote in Türkçe well! ❤ (wothout using Google Translate)

[Ne Gece Ne Gündüz 🎗]

😦 üzdün beni dostum . Atatürk Arnavut değil 😠

[Zadrot]

Wow Slovak is so similar to Russian. As a Russian speaker I understood 96% Slovak and 85% Bulgarian

[HeroManNick132]

Защо ли си учуден?

[Enkai pritie]

And another comment, the girl from Bulgaria is more open, she said she is from Sofia, the Slovaks are like central Europe they don’t like that other people knows their lives and they can be very reserved but on the contrary they want to know all about you…

[Villi Kothen]

Such a lovely sankepit!

[ElTompito]

2:07 Spark - iskra- szikra (in hungarian) but.... :-) 4:15 Bridge - most means now in hungarian :-)

[wyqtor]

And 'híd' - the real word for 'bridge' comes from some sort of Iranian-derived language. Maybe from the Jász people (related to Ossetians) who also used to live in Pannonia, in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county.

[SJOC]

I am glad you hungarians accepted slavic words

[Нехай подолає триєдиний народ розкладання єдності!]

I am Russian and Slovak sounds closer to Russian than Bulgarian to me.

[Drop a nuke on usa again !]

@Нехай подолає триєдиний народ розкладання єдності! естестественно с чего бы Русским дружить с инородцами и открытыми врагами, бульбаши и каклы это враги Руси и захватчики Русских земель, потомки инородцев - татар, евреев, поляков, венгров, румын, турков, литовцев и т.д. Я просто обычный Русский человек со здоровыми Русскими взглядами - обособление и отделение от всей неруси и левоты. нет никаких братьев есть Русские и нерусь и бульбаши и каклы это второе. то что надо сделать так чтобы их не стало и они рождались а только Русские жили на земле

[Нехай подолає триєдиний народ розкладання єдності!]

@Robert Kukuczka я это понимаю, я сказал именно про звучание и именно про данное видео. Ощущения от словацкого такие, что как будто кто-то говорит по-русски, но его плохо слышно и по этому не понятно, в то время как болгарский звучит иначе. И я говорю именно про фонетику, остальное я не сравниваю! Возможно даже в других видео звуки будут другие.

[Нехай подолає триєдиний народ розкладання єдності!]

@Drop a nuke on usa again ! все те, кто утверждает, что украинцы и белорусы не являются одним народом с русскими - не являются дружественным человеком для этих народов. Разъединять могут только со враждебными целями, с целью провокации вражды - сеют раздор между братьями. Я удивляюсь как у тебя, с такими рассуждениями, изображён флаг России. Кто ты? Предатель? И что плохого в представителях негроидной расы? Ну родились люди с чёрной кожей и что?

[Robert Kukuczka]

But bulgarian writing is cirilic like Russian.

[Drop a nuke on usa again !]

@Нехай подолає триєдиний народ розкладання єдності! нет Русские один народа а бульбы и каклы совсем другие ты и негры одно и тоже

[PAPAZA TAKLA ATTIRAN İMAM]

Şimal❤️

[bahtsız türko]

@Dora la Explora pontic and greek are different. we have about 30% pontic-anatolia genetics

[Dora la Explora]

@May Mmm... Hiatory and Science say that 35-40% of turkey's population are converted greeks who were turkisezed

[May]

Khan Krum Greeks are actually of Turkish origin. Learn the history! Lol

[Kürşad Nural]

Khan Krum no we are southern african originally

[Ne Gece Ne Gündüz 🎗]

Khan Krum Okey Kurdish Kid .

[PAPAZA TAKLA ATTIRAN İMAM]

You brought back the old ones :-)

[SantomPh]

Old but gorgeous🇧🇬🇹🇷

[TabouleFattouch47]

Slovak and Rusyn (Ruthenian) are the easiest languages for all Slavic Language speakers to understand. These two languages were possibly the source to the entire Slavic speaking family or because they evolved the least (no Ottoman or Nordic influence and very little Germanic input) they remained the easiest for all to understand and can actually serve as a common language if ever the Slavic World decides to unite.

[HeroManNick132]

Rusyn is like Ukrainian and it's not very understandable to me. Slovak more or less. For me Macedonian, Russian and I guess Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian are the easiest to understand. Belarusian, Polish and the Lusatian languages are harder. Interslavic already exists which is more understandable than Slovak or Rusyn.

[Victorious]

Slovak woman is very beautiful

[native speaker]

Şimal, you're adorable, I love you!

[The blackpilled Mongol]

no simps

[Aubergine Sonofdude]

So are we getting videos face to face? That's good if there are no health restrictions.

[ܐܫܘܪ ܒܢܐ ܐܦܠܐ]

@Daniël van R. I don't think that is what was being implied

[Daniël van R.]

@Aubergine Sonofdude Clearly you can't read, mate -- and you're missing a vocative comma in your (so loosely termed) retort. 😏

[SantomPh]

@Daniël van R. you keep quiet now or move to Florida.

[𐭌𐭄𐭓𐭃𐭕]

Slovak/BULG---English Grah Green(pea) Mäkky Mushy Dnes Day (today) Iskra Spark Pred Pre (in-front) Zhult Gold ( yellow) Zvuk Music ( sound) Most Mast ( bridge) Alert❗️read only if u have extra time/nerds like me🤓: *< žena> has a long story😁 here it goes: The Sanskrit jan has been described as “that which comes ( J ) from the waters ( AN )” the dictionary defines jan as “generate” “beget” “cause” “create” “take birth” and “grow”. It seems to be related to the waters, the primal waters, the causal ocean from which everything is “generated” “born” “produced” and “created”. Jan produces jani meaning “wife” “mother” “woman” this produces janika meaning “mother” “daughter in law” and this produces janitra meaning “parents” relatives”. Jani travels to Greece and becomes the gyny in androgyny meaning “male/female” it becomes misogyny meaning “woman hater” it becomes polygyny meaning “many women” it becomes gynarchy meaning “a government of women” and it becomes gynecology meaning the “study of women”. In ancient times they were not so politically correct and so a Queen was known in relationship to the King as in the “wife of the King". Once again its the Sanskrit jani which becomes the Greek gyne, the Old Prussian genna, the Old Church Slavonic zena, the Old Saxon Quen and eventually we arrive at the word Queen whose source is this Sanskrit jani meaning “wife” as in the “wife of the king”. Jani then becomes the Kurdistan - Jin - Parthian - Jn - Avestan - Jaini - Croatian - Zena - Serbian - Zena - Bosnian - Zena - Czech - Zena - Macedonia - Zena - Slovak - Zena - Bulgarian - Zhena - Persian -Zan All cognate with this Sanskrit “Jani” meaning “wife” “woman”. * ?? Even, a longer story! 🤪Im not gonna bother you anymore; maybe later😉 thank you for listening🙏🏻

[𐭌𐭄𐭓𐭃𐭕]

@Michal Reingraber SK alias MIZU are u here to add something to the topic or to teach me Eng? Of course About 80 percent of the entries in any English dictionary are borrowed, mainly from Latin. Over 60 percent of all English words have Greek or Latin roots. Pre is no exception! Now a days Pre is an english prefix meaning in-front of… Got any Problem with that?

[Michal Reingraber SK alias MIZU]

@𐭌𐭄𐭓𐭃𐭕 What do you mean? Before, afore and fore have clear meaning in English, so I don't know what you are doing. "Pre" is just an imported prefix of Romance origin, it doesn't exist as a lonely word in English.

[MUSIC MIX]

@Michal Reingraber SK alias MIZUim russian ,я могу использовать это слово когда говорю "перед ним"=впереди него.

[𐭌𐭄𐭓𐭃𐭕]

@Michal Reingraber SK alias MIZUNo, its good to know if u have an insight about it

[Michal Reingraber SK alias MIZU]

Do you know that you can translate "pred" as before? Or fore?

[The Anti-Imperialist]

The Bulgarians have fought against many imperialists and occupiers, and their bravery was seen again the Ottomans. The liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman occupiers is one that brings joy to all those stand against imperialism.

[Dora la Explora]

@Ada Y'll turks almost did it. Near all the ppl who live in european part of europe are turkisized bulgarians amd greeks

[The Anti-Imperialist]

@Ada Exactly you re right. Imperialism is really cruel and we must unite against imperialism

[Ada]

@The Anti-Imperialist Yeah, you have the right points. In the end, the Turkish people also fought against the British puppet Ottomans. Imperialism is really cruel. All the peoples of the world must unite against imperialism

[The Anti-Imperialist]

@Ada France, England, and Spain were far worse in their imperialistic ambitions, but that does not take away from what the Ottomans did. The Bulgarians had a national awakening and fought for their language, as the did the Serbs and others, but that does not take away from the Ottoman imperialism, including slvery. Bringing up France and England (which we all know were horrendous in their imperialism) is only a trick, it is like a criminal in court wanting to get away by bringing up other much bigger criminals.

[Ada]

If we were imperialists, all Bulgarians would be speaking Turkish today. We did not change the language or religion of the Bulgarians for 500 years. And look at what France and England did in Africa in 50 years

[E. K.]

Победа за българакта в категорията яка мацка ;)

[andrew_be]

Speaking of Slovakia, we recall that on this exact date (November 4, 1938) Jozef Tiso ordered the deportation of Jews "without property". Jozef Tiso, for those who don't know, was a Slovak politician and Roman Catholic priest who was president of the Slovak Republic, a client state of Nazi Germany during World War II, from 1939 to 1945.

[jolevangelista]

I feel sorry for you andrew

[andrew_be]

Tiso collaborated with Germany in deportations of Jews, deporting many Slovak Jews to extermination and concentration camps in Germany and German-occupied Poland, while some Jews in Slovakia were murdered outright. When the Soviet Red Army overran the last parts of western Slovakia in April 1945, Tiso fled to Austria and then Germany where American troops arrested him and then had him extradited back to the restored Czechoslovakia, where he was convicted of treason against the state, treason against the uprising and collaboration, and then executed by hanging in 1947 in Bratislava.

[Sergey Drokin]

Словачка красивая очень

[Sergey Drokin]

@Angel Gomez maybe

[Ji Han]

YESSSSS Şimal! The queen is back~!

[Mike Advice]

Prekrasna sestra Bugarka. Pozdrav braći Bugarima iz Srbije.

[mira Franka]

je to podobné ale ne tak tolik bulharština mi připadá už jiná trochu se slovanských jazyků

[SantomPh]

Happy Republic Day Simal 🇹🇷

[Lissandra Freljord]

I didn't know Meghan Markle spoke Bulgarian.

[Oleg Garay]

This would've been better if it were done with sentences instead of random words.

[Youssef Ghish]

We want circassian language (adyghe-kabardian)!

[Youssef Ghish]

@Prof. Spudd yes👍🏼

[Prof. Spudd]

Possibilities: Georgian, Armenian, Chechen, Turkish, Persian, and Russian

[Satan Shameer]

Circassian should be compared with Abkhaz and Abaza

[ܐܫܘܪ ܒܢܐ ܐܦܠܐ]

@Prof. Spudd exactly

[ܐܫܘܪ ܒܢܐ ܐܦܠܐ]

What can you compare with?

[corinna007]

Heyyy it's Simal! Nice to see her again. 🙂

[Ne Gece Ne Gündüz 🎗]

Artık Türkiye gelsin abi ya 🥺 Bahadır Abi Turkey vs ? yap

[Mr. Allmighty Cornholio]

OMG WE MISS YOU Şimal!

[اسد الله]

Can you conduct one with the Kuwaiti dialect and Persian language

[Genghis Attenborough]

That was cool! Thanks

[Roi Huberman]

I was watching this video (kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2qTdoCbp8lpetE) and I recognised the music that runs under a lot of your videos! It comes in at 3:06min. The things one notices…

[elleamo92]

I am a Russian speaker and I got like 70%

[Laura García]

Spanish with Moroccan Darija!

[No Name]

Hey I remember Anelya from Dating beyond borders. Though she Brazilian when I first saw her

[HeroManNick132]

@No Name Exactly. We have so little info even about the Thracians who lived on these lands, just like the Bulgars. No one can tell exactly what they were, because it happened so many centuries ago and even with our modern technology is still hard to tell what they were exactly. Yes, they had more "Asiatic" features which is true, but it is not just Turko-Mongolic as many historicians describe. It is estimated that these people could have Persian roots too so it is bit debatable. This guy doesn't distinguishes Bulgars from modern Bulgarians and I can see his ignorance. This is like saying the Modern Macedonians are the ancestors of the Ancient ones which is proven that is false or like how Romani are like Ancient Romans or Ancient Romanians and you get the point. Also I'm pretty sure not every Bulgar looked the same in the past so this is just an excuse because of the name "Bulgar" in Bulgaria. Well-tanned people and barely tanned ones exist in all Southern Europe so it is not exclusive that to Bulgaria. You could say that to the Spaniards, Greeks, Croats, Italians that the more south you go the more tanned people will see. This is called a Mediteranean look which is normal and Bulgaria through history had a coastline to Aegian sea but it lost it in WW1 to Greece.

[HeroManNick132]

@Super Mavro Dude, on the Balkans exist both white af people, and dark-skinned ones like this girl here and not just in Bulgaria. Italians are the same and pretty much all Southern Europe which is close to the Mediteranean sea. The souther you go, the more tanned people you'll see. I'm Bulgarian and I barely have any tan at all so you'll say that all we look the same? And do you fucking forget that Modern Bulgarians don't have that much of the Bulgar tribe which got extinct in the 9th century? Bulgarian people are mix of Thracians, Slavs and the Bulgar tribe. Macedonians are too but they are even more mixed from mainly Serbs, Albanians and bit of Greeks. In reality Russians are the least Slavic looking people - they are mix of Finno-Ugric, Mongolians, Turkic and some Slavic. Also the Tatars, Chechens, Chuvash which are the other nationalities living are not considered independent people but Russian citzens, right Also no one really knows what the truly the Bulgar tribe were. They were not pure ethnicity like how the Thracians, Ilyrians and Dacians were. We barely have info about these tribes. Bulgars could technically be more Asiatic which is true but they are not entirely Turko-Mongols, they had Persian roots too. But don't confuse us with the Turks because we are not and the Turks in Turkey didn't come on the Balkans until in 14th century.

[No Name]

@Super Mavro not quite

[Super Mavro]

@No Name NO. it's documented fact.

[No Name]

@Super Mavro That could be easily disputed. Their history is shrouded in mystery

[Violeta B]

I am Serbian and I am surprised how many words are the same in Serbian. Clearly, all Slavic languages are very similar.

[HeroManNick132]

Защо си учудена? Знаеш ли какво е смешно? Много от сърбите искат да им се говори на английски, за да ни разберат (разумяват) 😂

[KATYA PUSSER]

I understand almost everything)) I am russian

[Brandon Garcia]

YAAASSSS ŞİMAL!!!!!

[BakunaMatata]

4:06 « no difference in stress » in zvuk 😂😂😂😂

[Next Lifetime Brendan]

Queen Simal!!

[Jasmina J]

I did not recognize Simal!

[Ahmed]

Dayum... Bulgarian woman is stunning.

[Haywood Jablomie]

All 3 are beautiful

[NUM DD]

Khan Krum He isn't Turkish though, Ahmed isn't a Turkish name.

[Надежда Димова]

карашък memleket

[Kv Kovel]

Девушка словачка очень красивая

[Ash Tommo]

Bulgarian and Macedonian are basically the same

[אילירי{🇦🇱}]

@HeroManNick132 I undestand everything what you have writenn 😂

[Samra]

@HeroManNick132 Bulgarians seem to have an easier time understanding Macedonian. But Macedonians, especially from Western Macedonia understand like 50% of Bulgarian.

[HeroManNick132]

@Anton P Lol, "different" but the same time inteligible, right?

[Anton P]

@HeroManNick132 No, it's different languages

[Jr A]

Wishing You & Your Family & Friends A Very Happy Diwali