Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
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.
Similar To
Macedonian language
  
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
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
  
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
  
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
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
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
  
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.