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Finnish and Chinese


Countries

Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
5  
10
2  
13

National Language
China, Taiwan  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  

Second Language
Republic of Brazil  
Estonia  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  

Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council  
Institute for the Languages of Finland  

Interesting Facts
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
  • 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
Japanese and Korean Languages  
Estonian and Livonian Languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
26  
8
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
24  
19
8  
5

How Many Consonants
23  
13
13  
3

Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks  
19
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)  
Moi  

Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)  
Kiitos  

How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)  
Mitä kuuluu?  

Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)  
hyvää yötä  

Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)  
Hyvää iltaa  

Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)  
Hyvää iltapäivää  

Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)  
Hyvää huomenta  

Please
请 (Qǐng)  
haluta  

Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)  
Anteeksi  

Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)  
Heippa  

I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)  
Minä rakastan sinua  

Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)  
Anteeksi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Mandarin  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan  
Finland  

How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00  
1
5,600,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Wu  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
China, United States of America  
Finland, Rauma  

How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00  
6
5,600,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Yue  
Meänkieli  

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam  
Finland, Sweden  

How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00  
12
60,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
10  
10
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million  
2
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
16.00 %  
2
0.13 %  
99+

Native Speakers
873.00 million  
1
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
178.00 million  
3
0.01 million  
99+

Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)  
suomi / suomen kieli  

Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu  
Suomi  

French Name
chinois  
finnois  

German Name
Chinesisch  
Finnisch  

Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]  
[ˈsuomi]  

Ethnicity
Han  
ethnic Finns  

History

Origin
1250 BC  
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 Chinese  
standard Finnish  

Language Position
1  
1
22  
20

Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
zh  
fi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
zho  
fin  

ISO 639 2/B
chi  
fin  

ISO 639 3
zho  
fin  

ISO 639 6
zho  
fin  

Glottocode
sini1245  
finn1318  

Linguasphere
79-AAA  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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All Chinese 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 Chinese and Finnish dialects. Various dialects of Chinese and Finnish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Chinese are spoken in different Chinese Speaking Countries whereas Finnish Dialects are spoken in different Finnish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Chinese vs Finnish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Chinese dialects include: Mandarin, Wu. Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish , Rauma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Chinese and Finnish Speaking population

Chinese and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chinese and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Chinese and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chinese 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 Chinese and Finnish on Chinese vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Chinese and Finnish Language Codes

Chinese and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Chinese and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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