Countries
European Union, Finland
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Bulgaria
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
- 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
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Macedonian language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2930
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1336
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
Kiitos
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
haluta
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
Anteeksi
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
Heippa
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Finland
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
60,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
2158
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million7.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.21 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.40 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million9.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Suomi
Balgarski
French Name
finnois
bulgare
German Name
Finnisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Bulgarian people
Origin
1543
9th Century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Slavic
Branch
Finnic
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
2288
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
bul
ISO 639 2/B
fin
bul
ISO 639 3
fin
bul
ISO 639 6
fin
buls
Glottocode
finn1318
bulg1262
Linguasphere
No data available
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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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