Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
Bulgaria
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Macedonian language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
Моля (Molja)
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
7.80 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
Not Available
  
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
chinois
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Standard Bulgarian
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
buls
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Not Available