Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
Sri Lanka
  
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
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
bulgare
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
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
  
Not Available
  
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
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Bulgarian and Sinhalese Speaking population
Bulgarian and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bulgarian and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Bulgarian and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bulgarian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. 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 Sinhalese on Bulgarian vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Bulgarian and Sinhalese Language Codes
Bulgarian and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Bulgarian and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.