Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
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
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Bulgaria
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
7.80 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
finnois
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Not Available
  
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
Not Available
  
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
Not Available
  
buls
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Finnish and Bulgarian 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 Finnish and Bulgarian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Bulgarian language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Bulgarian word for "Thank You" is Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti). Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Bulgarian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Bulgarian Difficulty
The Finnish vs Bulgarian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Bulgarian 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 Finnish and Bulgarian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Bulgarian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Bulgarian time required is 44 weeks.