Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Bulgaria
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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
Japanese and Korean Languages
Macedonian language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2630
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
246
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2336
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
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Pirdop
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1058
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Balgarski
French Name
chinois
bulgare
German Name
Chinesisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Han
Bulgarian people
Origin
1250 BC
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 Chinese
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
188
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
bul
ISO 639 2/B
chi
bul
ISO 639 3
zho
bul
ISO 639 6
zho
buls
Glottocode
sini1245
bulg1262
Linguasphere
79-AAA
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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