Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2829
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2013
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
104
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
Moi
Thank You
谢谢
Kiitos
How Are You?
你好吗？
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
晚安
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
晚上好
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
下午好
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
早上好
Hyvää huomenta
Please
请
haluta
Sorry
遗憾
Anteeksi
Bye
再见
Heippa
I Love You
我爱你
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
原谅我
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Finland
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Rauma
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
321
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million5.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Suomi
French Name
cantonais
finnois
German Name
Kantonesisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
ethnic Finns
Origin
17th century
1543
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
-
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
standard Finnish
Language Position
122
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Finnish
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
fin
ISO 639 2/B
yue
fin
ISO 639 3
No data available
fin
ISO 639 6
yue
fin
Glottocode
cant1236
finn1318
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic