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Finnish vs Bulgarian


Bulgarian vs Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
Bulgaria, European Union  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

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

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

Alphabets
29  
11
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
6  
3

How Many Consonants
13  
3
36  
26

Scripts
Latin  
Cyrillic  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

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
60,000.00  
31
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
58  
32

How Many People Speak

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  

History

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  
88  
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Bulgarian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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  

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Finnish and Bulgarian Language History

Comparison of Finnish vs Bulgarian language history gives us differences between origin of Finnish and Bulgarian language. History of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543 whereas history of Bulgarian language states that this language originated in 9th Century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Finnish and Bulgarian Language History.

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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.

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