Cantonese and Finnish
Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
European Union, Finland
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
Alphabets in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
你好吗？
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Evening
晚上好
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
下午好
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
早上好
Hyvää huomenta
I Love You
我爱你
Minä rakastan sinua
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Finland
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Finland, Rauma
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Finland, Sweden
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
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Uralic Family
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
standard Finnish
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Finnish
ISO 639 1
No data available
fi
ISO 639 3
No data available
fin
Glottocode
cant1236
finn1318
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic
All Cantonese and Finnish 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 Cantonese and Finnish dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Finnish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Finnish Dialects are spoken in different Finnish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Finnish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish , Rauma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Cantonese and Finnish Speaking population
Cantonese and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 %. 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 Cantonese and Finnish on Cantonese vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Finnish Language Codes
Cantonese and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.