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Bulgarian vs Swahili


Swahili vs Bulgarian


Countries

Countries
Bulgaria, European Union  
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

National Language
Bulgaria  
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania  

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  
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)  

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.
  
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
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Similar To
Macedonian language  
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Arabic Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
30  
12
24  
6

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
5  
2

How Many Consonants
36  
26
21  
11

Scripts
Cyrillic  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
36 weeks  
10

Greetings

Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)  
Habari  

Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)  
Asante  

How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)  
Habari gani?  

Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)  
Usiku mwema  

Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)  
Habari za jioni  

Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)  
nzuri Alasiri  

Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)  
Habari za asubuhi  

Please
Моля (Molja)  
tafadhali  

Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)  
pole  

Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)  
bye  

I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)  
nakupenda  

Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)  
Samahani  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo  
Kiunguja  

Where They Speak
Bulgaria  
Zanzibar island  

Dialect 2
Panagyurishte  
Kimrima  

Where They Speak
Bulgaria  
Dar es Salaam  

Dialect 3
Pirdop  
Kimgao  

Where They Speak
Bulgaria  
Kilwa  

Total No. Of Dialects
58  
32
12  
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
7.80 million  
99+
150.00 million  
13

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
7.80 million  
99+
15.00 million  
40

Native Name
български (bãlgarski)  
Not Available  

Alternative Names
Balgarski  
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili  

French Name
bulgare  
swahili  

German Name
Bulgarisch  
Swahili  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Not Available  
Swahili people or Waswahili  

History

Origin
9th Century  
6th 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  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian  
Swahili  

Language Position
88  
99+
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual, Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
bg  
sw  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bul  
swa  

ISO 639 2/B
bul  
swa  

ISO 639 3
bul  
swa  

ISO 639 6
buls  
Not Available  

Glottocode
bulg1262  
swah1254  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb  
99-AUS-m  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

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Bulgarian and Swahili Language History

Comparison of Bulgarian vs Swahili language history gives us differences between origin of Bulgarian and Swahili language. History of Bulgarian language states that this language originated in 9th Century whereas history of Swahili language states that this language originated in 6th century. 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 Swahili Language History.

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Bulgarian and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bulgarian and Swahili language. Bulgarian word for "Hello" is Здравейте (Zdraveĭte) or Swahili word for "Thank You" is Asante. Find more of such common Bulgarian Greetings and Swahili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Bulgarian vs Swahili Difficulty

The Bulgarian vs Swahili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bulgarian Alphabets and Swahili 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 Swahili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bulgarian and Swahili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bulgarian is 44 weeks while to learn Swahili time required is 36 weeks.

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