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Bulgarian vs Dzongkha


Dzongkha vs Bulgarian


Countries

Countries
Bulgaria, European Union  
Bhutan  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Bulgaria  
Bhutan  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
India  

Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine  
India  

Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language  
Dzongkha Development Commission  

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.
  
  • Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
  

Similar To
Macedonian language  
Sikkimese Language  

Derived From
-  
Tibetan Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
30  
12
95  
39

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
5  
2

How Many Consonants
36  
26
30  
20

Scripts
Cyrillic  
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
38 weeks  
14

Greetings

Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)  
Kuzoozangpo La  

Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)  
Kaadinchhey La  

How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)  
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?  

Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)  
lek shom ay zim  

Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)  
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་  

Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)  
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ  

Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)  
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ  

Please
Моля (Molja)  
བསྐྱར་མ་  

Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)  
Tsip maza  

Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)  
Log Jay Gay  

I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)  
Nga cheu lu ga  

Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)  
Tsip maza  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo  
Laya  

Where They Speak
Bulgaria  
Bhutan  

How Many People Speak
9,200,000.00  
38
1,100.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Panagyurishte  
Lunana  

Where They Speak
Bulgaria  
Bhutan  

How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00  
38
700.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Pirdop  
Adap  

Where They Speak
Bulgaria  
Bhutan  

How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00  
30
130,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
58  
32
4  
4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
7.80 million  
99+
0.64 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.21 %  
99+
0.07 %  
99+

Native Speakers
7.80 million  
99+
0.17 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
9.00 million  
99+
0.47 million  
99+

Native Name
български (bãlgarski)  
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)  

Alternative Names
Balgarski  
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar  

French Name
bulgare  
dzongkha  

German Name
Bulgarisch  
Dzongkha  

Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]  
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]  

Ethnicity
Bulgarian people  
Ngalop people  

History

Origin
9th Century  
17th Century  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Slavic  
-  

Branch
Southern  
Tibeto-Burman  

Language Forms
  
  

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

Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian  
Dzongkha  

Language Position
88  
99+
31  
29

Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language  
Signed Dzongkha  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bg  
dz  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bul  
dzo  

ISO 639 2/B
bul  
dzo  

ISO 639 3
bul  
dzo  

ISO 639 6
buls  
dzo  

Glottocode
bulg1262  
nucl1307  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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Bulgarian and Dzongkha Language History

Comparison of Bulgarian vs Dzongkha language history gives us differences between origin of Bulgarian and Dzongkha language. History of Bulgarian language states that this language originated in 9th Century whereas history of Dzongkha language states that this language originated in 17th Century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Bulgarian and Dzongkha Language History.

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Bulgarian and Dzongkha Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Bulgarian and Dzongkha greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bulgarian and Dzongkha language. Bulgarian word for "Hello" is Здравейте (Zdraveĭte) or Dzongkha word for "Thank You" is Kaadinchhey La. Find more of such common Bulgarian Greetings and Dzongkha Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Bulgarian vs Dzongkha Difficulty

The Bulgarian vs Dzongkha difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bulgarian Alphabets and Dzongkha Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Bulgarian and Dzongkha are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bulgarian and Dzongkha, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bulgarian is 44 weeks while to learn Dzongkha time required is 38 weeks.

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