Locale Bg Bg
Use when working with the Bulgarian (Bulgaria) locale (`bg-BG`) — its endonym Български (България), Cyrillic script, left-to-right (LTR) direction, or spoken-population data. Reference data and translation guidance (register, grammar, idiom, typography) for this specific locale; see [[locale]] for general i18n/l10n concepts (BCP 47, plural rules, RTL) that apply across all locales.
Reference data for the Bulgarian (Bulgaria) locale — endonym Български (България), written in the Cyrillic script, left-to-right (LTR).
Identifiers
- BCP 47 tag:
bg-BG - ISO 639-1:
bg - ISO 639-3:
bul - Script: Cyrl (Cyrillic)
- Region: BG (Bulgaria)
- Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)
Speakers (approximate)
- L1 (native): 6,800,000
- L2 (additional): 1,200,000
- L1+L2 (total): 7,900,000
Base locale
This is a regional variant of Locale Bg 001 (Bulgarian), the base/macro locale for this language.
Pluralization
CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, other (2 forms).
- one —
n = 1(e.g. 1) - other — everything else (e.g. 0, 2~16, 100, 1000, …)
See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.
Translating into this locale
Apply Locale Bg 001 with the conventions of Bulgaria.
- Formats: dates
17.10.2026 г.; 24-hour clock; decimal comma; confirm the currency (euro from 1 January 2026; the lev before). - Terminology: use the official Bulgarian EU terminology for legal and administrative content.
- Tone: direct and plain; official text is formal.
Common pitfalls
- Using Russian vocabulary.
- Using the lev for current prices without checking.
- The general pitfalls in Locale Bg 001 also apply.
Learn more
- Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
- Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
- Unicode CLDR locale data for number, date, and currency formats (https://cldr.unicode.org)