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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Wu
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Balgarski
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French Name
bulgare
chinois
German Name
Bulgarisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
Not Available
Han
Origin
9th Century
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
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Branch
Southern
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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 6
buls
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Glottocode
bulg1262
sini1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating
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.