Countries
European Union, Finland
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Hawaii
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2928
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1320
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
410
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Moi
您好
Thank You
Kiitos
谢谢
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
你好吗？
Good Night
hyvää yötä
晚安
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
下午好
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
早上好
Please
haluta
请
Sorry
Anteeksi
遗憾
Bye
Heippa
再见
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
我爱你
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
原谅我
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Finland
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Rauma
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
60,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
213
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Suomi
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
finnois
cantonais
German Name
Finnisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Han Chinese
Origin
1543
17th century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
-
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
221
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
fi
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
yue
ISO 639 2/B
fin
yue
ISO 639 3
fin
No data available
ISO 639 6
fin
yue
Glottocode
finn1318
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
-