Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
European Union, Finland
  
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
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Suomi
  
French Name
bulgare
  
finnois
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
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
Not Available
  
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
  
Not Available
  
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
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
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 Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available. 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.