Bulgarian and Cantonese
Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
Bulgaria
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Hawaii
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
您好
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
谢谢
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
你好吗？
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
晚安
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
下午好
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
早上好
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
遗憾
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
再见
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
我爱你
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
outside mainland China
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Pirdop
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Hong Kong
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
bulgare
Not Available
German Name
Bulgarisch
Not Available
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Not Available
Origin
9th Century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Not Available
Branch
Southern
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 1
bg
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
bul
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
bul
Not Available
ISO 639 3
bul
No data available
ISO 639 6
buls
Not Available
Glottocode
bulg1262
cant1236
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
No data available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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All Bulgarian and Cantonese 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 Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of Bulgarian and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Bulgarian are spoken in different Bulgarian Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Bulgarian vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Bulgarian dialects include: Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo, Panagyurishte. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Bulgarian and Cantonese Speaking population
Bulgarian and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bulgarian and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Bulgarian and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bulgarian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese 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 Cantonese on Bulgarian vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Bulgarian and Cantonese Language Codes
Bulgarian and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Bulgarian and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.