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Chinese and Finnish


Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
5  
10

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

Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Chinese.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
24  
19

How Many Consonants
13  
3
23  
13

Scripts
Latin  
Chinese Characters and derivatives  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
88 weeks  
19

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Mandarin  

Where They Speak
Finland  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan  

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

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Wu  

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

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

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Yue  

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

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

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
10  
10

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
16.00 %  
2

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
873.00 million  
1

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
99+
178.00 million  
3

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  

History

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
22  
20
1  
1

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

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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  

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

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Finnish and Chinese Speaking population

Finnish and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese 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 Chinese on Finnish vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Chinese Language Codes

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

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