Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Hawaii
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3028
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3620
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
您好
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
谢谢
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
你好吗？
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
晚安
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
下午好
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
早上好
Please
Моля (Molja)
请
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
遗憾
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
再见
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
我爱你
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pirdop
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
583
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.21 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.80 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
9.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
bulgare
cantonais
German Name
Bulgarisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Han Chinese
Origin
9th Century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Southern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
881
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
bg
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
yue
ISO 639 2/B
bul
yue
ISO 639 3
bul
No data available
ISO 639 6
buls
yue
Glottocode
bulg1262
cant1236
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-