Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
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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 in
Alphabets
2629
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
248
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2313
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
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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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
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Finland
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Rauma
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1021
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million5.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
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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
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
122
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
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