Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3026
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
624
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3623
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
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Моля (Molja)
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Wu
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Yue
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
5810
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.21 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.80 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
9.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
bulgare
chinois
German Name
Bulgarisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Han
Origin
9th Century
1250 BC
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 Chinese
Language Position
881
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bg
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
zho
ISO 639 2/B
bul
chi
ISO 639 3
bul
zho
ISO 639 6
buls
zho
Glottocode
bulg1262
sini1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating