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Bulgarian and Sinhalese


Sinhalese and Bulgarian


Countries

Countries
Bulgaria, European Union   
Sri Lanka   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

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

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

Alphabets
30   
12
54   
33

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6   
3
18   
15

How Many Consonants
36   
26
36   
26

Scripts
Cyrillic   
Sinhala alphabet   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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)   

Dialects

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   

Total No. Of Dialects
58   
32
1   
1

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.25 %   
99+

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   

History

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
88   
99+
70   
99+

Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

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   

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All Bulgarian and Sinhalese 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 Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Bulgarian and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Bulgarian are spoken in different Bulgarian Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Bulgarian vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Bulgarian dialects include: Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo, Panagyurishte. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Not Available. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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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.

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