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
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Macedonian language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Not Available
Dialect 2
Wu
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
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Balgarski
French Name
chinois
bulgare
German Name
Chinesisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
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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
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 6
Not Available
buls
Glottocode
sini1245
bulg1262
Linguasphere
79-AAA
53-AAA-hb
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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Chinese and Bulgarian 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 Chinese and Bulgarian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Bulgarian language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Bulgarian word for "Thank You" is Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti). Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Bulgarian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Bulgarian Difficulty
The Chinese vs Bulgarian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Bulgarian 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 Chinese and Bulgarian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Bulgarian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Bulgarian time required is 44 weeks.