Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Bulgaria
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3054
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
618
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3636
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Моля (Molja)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Vedda
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
-
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pirdop
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
-
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
581
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.80 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.21 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.80 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
9.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
bulgare
singhalais
German Name
Bulgarisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Bulgarian people
Sinhalese people
Origin
9th Century
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Southern
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
8870
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bg
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bul
sin
ISO 639 2/B
bul
sin
ISO 639 3
bul
sin
ISO 639 6
buls
sin
Glottocode
bulg1262
sinh1246
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional