Countries
European Union, Finland
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Estonia
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2926
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
824
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1323
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
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Kiitos
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
hyvää yötä
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
haluta
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Anteeksi
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Heippa
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Finland
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Rauma
Wu
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Yue
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
60,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2110
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Suomi
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
finnois
chinois
German Name
Finnisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Han
Origin
1543
1250 BC
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 Chinese
Language Position
221
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
zho
ISO 639 2/B
fin
chi
ISO 639 3
fin
zho
ISO 639 6
fin
zho
Glottocode
finn1318
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating