Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Macedonian language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2830
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
103
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
谢谢
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
你好吗?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
晚安
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
晚上好
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
下午好
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
早上好
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
请
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
遗憾
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
再见
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
我爱你
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
原谅我
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
358
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Balgarski
French Name
cantonais
bulgare
German Name
Kantonesisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Bulgarian people
Origin
17th century
9th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
188
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
bul
ISO 639 2/B
yue
bul
ISO 639 3
No data available
bul
ISO 639 6
yue
buls
Glottocode
cant1236
bulg1262
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
-