Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
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.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Chinese.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
1,051.00 million
  
2
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Not Available
  
French Name
bulgare
  
chinois
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Han
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Southern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
Standard Chinese
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating