Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3029
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3613
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Moi
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
Kiitos
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Hyvää huomenta
Please
Моля (Molja)
haluta
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Anteeksi
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
Heippa
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Finland
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Rauma
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
5821
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million5.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.21 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.80 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
9.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Suomi
French Name
bulgare
finnois
German Name
Bulgarisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
ethnic Finns
Origin
9th Century
1543
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Southern
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
standard Finnish
Language Position
8822
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bg
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
fin
ISO 639 2/B
bul
fin
ISO 639 3
bul
fin
ISO 639 6
buls
fin
Glottocode
bulg1262
finn1318
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic