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Bulgarian and Chinese


Chinese and Bulgarian


Countries

Countries
Bulgaria, European Union   
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
5   
10

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   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Chinese.jpg#200   

Alphabets
30   
12
26   
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6   
3
24   
19

How Many Consonants
36   
26
23   
13

Scripts
Cyrillic   
Chinese Characters and derivatives   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
88 weeks   
13

Greetings

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)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo   
Mandarin   

Where They Speak
Bulgaria   
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
960,000,000.00   
1

Dialect 2
Panagyurishte   
Wu   

Where They Speak
Bulgaria   
China, United States of America   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
80,000,000.00   
1

Dialect 3
Pirdop   
Yue   

Where They Speak
Bulgaria   
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
60,000,000.00   
2

Total No. Of Dialects
58   
32
10   
10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
7.80 million   
99+
1,051.00 million   
2

Speaking Population
Not Available   
16.00 %   
2

Native Speakers
7.80 million   
99+
873.00 million   
1

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
178.00 million   
3

Native Name
български (bãlgarski)   
中文 (zhōngwén)   

Alternative Names
Balgarski   
Not Available   

French Name
bulgare   
chinois   

German Name
Bulgarisch   
Chinesisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Not Available   
Han   

History

Origin
9th Century   
1250 BC   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Slavic   
Not Available   

Branch
Southern   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian   
Standard Chinese   

Language Position
88   
99+
1   
1

Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language   
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

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   
Not Available   

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
Not Available   
Analytic, Isolating   

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All Bulgarian and Chinese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Bulgarian and Chinese dialects. Various dialects of Bulgarian and Chinese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Bulgarian are spoken in different Bulgarian Speaking Countries whereas Chinese Dialects are spoken in different Chinese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Bulgarian vs Chinese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Bulgarian dialects include: Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo, Panagyurishte. Chinese dialects include: Mandarin , Wu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Bulgarian and Chinese Speaking population

Bulgarian and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bulgarian and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Bulgarian and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bulgarian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Bulgarian and Chinese on Bulgarian vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Bulgarian and Chinese Language Codes

Bulgarian and Chinese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Bulgarian and Chinese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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