Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
Zimbabwe
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
  
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
Kalanga and Nambya Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Mhoro
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
Waita zvako
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Wakadini zvako?
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Urare zvakanaka
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Manheru
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Masikati
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Mangwanani
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
Ndinokumbirawo
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Ndineurombo
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
bye
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Ndinokuda
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Pamusoro
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Hwesa
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Zimbabwe
  
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Karanga
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
southern Zimbabwe
  
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Zezuru
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
  
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
8.30 million
  
99+
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
  
French Name
bulgare
  
shona
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Schona-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
9th Century
  
20th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Southern
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
sn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
sna
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
sna
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
sna
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
core1255
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
99-AUT-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Bulgarian and Shona Speaking population
Bulgarian and Shona speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bulgarian and Shona languages can be compared. The total count of Bulgarian and Shona Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bulgarian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Shona language is 0.13 %. 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 Shona on Bulgarian vs Shona where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Bulgarian and Shona Language Codes
Bulgarian and Shona language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Bulgarian and Shona Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.