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Bulgarian vs Chinese


Chinese vs Bulgarian


Countries

Countries
Bulgaria, European Union  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
5  
10

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

Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Chinese.jpg#200  

Alphabets
30  
12
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
24  
19

How Many Consonants
36  
26
23  
13

Scripts
Cyrillic  
Chinese Characters and derivatives  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
88 weeks  
13

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

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

Total No. Of Dialects
58  
32
10  
10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
7.80 million  
99+
1,051.00 million  
2

Speaking Population
Not Available  
16.00 %  
2

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  

History

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  

Language Position
88  
99+
1  
1

Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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  

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Bulgarian and Chinese Language History

Comparison of Bulgarian vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of Bulgarian and Chinese language. History of Bulgarian language states that this language originated in 9th Century whereas history of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Bulgarian and Chinese Language History.

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Bulgarian and Chinese Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Bulgarian and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bulgarian and Chinese language. Bulgarian word for "Hello" is Здравейте (Zdraveĭte) or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Bulgarian Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Bulgarian vs Chinese Difficulty

The Bulgarian vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bulgarian Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Bulgarian and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bulgarian and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bulgarian is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.

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