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Swahili
Swahili

Bulgarian
Bulgarian



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Countries

Countries

African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Bulgaria, European Union

Total No. Of Countries

42
0 46
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National Language

Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Bulgaria

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Africa, Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine

Regulated By

Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Institute for the Bulgarian language

Interesting Facts

  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
  • 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

Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Macedonian language

Derived From

Arabic Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2430
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

56
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2136
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Habari
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)

Thank You

Asante
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)

How Are You?

Habari gani?
Как си? (Kak si?)

Good Night

Usiku mwema
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)

Good Evening

Habari za jioni
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)

Good Afternoon

nzuri Alasiri
Добър ден (Dobãr den)

Good Morning

Habari za asubuhi
Добро утро (Dobro utro)

Please

tafadhali
Моля (Molja)

Sorry

pole
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)

Bye

bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)

I Love You

nakupenda
Обичам те (Običam te)

Excuse Me

Samahani
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kiunguja
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo

Where They Speak

Zanzibar island
Bulgaria

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kimrima
Panagyurishte

Where They Speak

Dar es Salaam
Bulgaria

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.009,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimgao
Pirdop

Where They Speak

Kilwa
Bulgaria

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.009,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1258
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

150.00 million7.80 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %0.21 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

15.00 million7.80 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

75.00 million9.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kiswahili
български (bãlgarski)

Alternative Names

Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Balgarski

French Name

swahili
bulgare

German Name

Swahili
Bulgarisch

Pronunciation

[swaˈhili]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]

Ethnicity

Swahili people or Waswahili
Bulgarian people

History

Origin

6th century
9th Century

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Slavic

Branch

Bantu
Southern

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian

Standard Forms

Swahili
Standard Bulgarian

Language Position

2188
1 120
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Signed Forms

Swahili Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sw
bg

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swa
bul

ISO 639 2/B

swa
bul

ISO 639 3

swa
bul

ISO 639 6

swa
buls

Glottocode

swah1254
bulg1262

Linguasphere

99-AUS-m
53-AAA-hb

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Swahili and Bulgarian Alphabets

Swahili and Bulgarian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Bulgarian. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Bulgarian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Swahili and Bulgarian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Bulgarian languages. The Swahili phonology consist Swahili vowels and Swahili consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Swahili greetings vs Bulgarian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Bulgarian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Swahili and Bulgarian 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 Swahili and Bulgarian dialects. Various dialects of Swahili and Bulgarian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Swahili are spoken in different Swahili Speaking Countries whereas Bulgarian Dialects are spoken in different Bulgarian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Swahili vs Bulgarian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja, Kimrima. Bulgarian dialects include: Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo , Panagyurishte. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Swahili and Bulgarian Speaking population

Swahili and Bulgarian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Bulgarian languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Bulgarian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Bulgarian language is 0.21 %. 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 Swahili and Bulgarian on Swahili vs Bulgarian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Bulgarian Language Codes

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