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Bulgarian and Finnish


Finnish and Bulgarian


Countries

Countries
Bulgaria, European Union  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

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

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

Alphabets
30  
12
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
8  
5

How Many Consonants
36  
26
13  
3

Scripts
Cyrillic  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
Bulgaria  
Finland  

How Many People Speak
9,200,000.00  
38
5,600,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Panagyurishte  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
Bulgaria  
Finland, Rauma  

How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00  
38
5,600,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Pirdop  
Meänkieli  

Where They Speak
Bulgaria  
Finland, Sweden  

How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00  
30
60,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
58  
32
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
7.80 million  
99+
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.21 %  
99+
0.13 %  
99+

Native Speakers
7.80 million  
99+
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
9.00 million  
99+
0.01 million  
99+

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  

History

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
88  
99+
22  
20

Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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  

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All Bulgarian and Finnish Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Bulgarian and Finnish dialects. Various dialects of Bulgarian and Finnish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Bulgarian are spoken in different Bulgarian Speaking Countries whereas Finnish Dialects are spoken in different Finnish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Bulgarian vs Finnish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Bulgarian dialects include: Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo, Panagyurishte. Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish , Rauma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Bulgarian and Finnish Speaking population

Bulgarian and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bulgarian and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Bulgarian and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bulgarian language is 0.21 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Bulgarian and Finnish on Bulgarian vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Bulgarian and Finnish Language Codes

Bulgarian and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Bulgarian and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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