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
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Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indo-Iranian
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 6
buls
Not Available
Glottocode
bulg1262
sinh1246
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional
Bulgarian and Sinhalese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Bulgarian and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bulgarian and Sinhalese language. Bulgarian word for "Hello" is Здравейте (Zdraveĭte) or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Bulgarian Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bulgarian vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Bulgarian vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bulgarian Alphabets and Sinhalese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Bulgarian and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bulgarian and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bulgarian is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.