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