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Cantonese and Finnish


Finnish and Cantonese


Countries

Countries
Hong Kong, Macau  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
China, Guangdong  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Estonia  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Hawaii  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  

Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division  
Institute for the Languages of Finland  

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • 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
Chinese Language  
Estonian and Livonian Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
28  
10
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
8  
5

How Many Consonants
20  
10
13  
3

Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
10  
8
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks  
13
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
您好  
Moi  

Thank You
谢谢  
Kiitos  

How Are You?
你好吗?  
Mitä kuuluu?  

Good Night
晚安  
hyvää yötä  

Good Evening
晚上好  
Hyvää iltaa  

Good Afternoon
下午好  
Hyvää iltapäivää  

Good Morning
早上好  
Hyvää huomenta  

Please
请  
haluta  

Sorry
遗憾  
Anteeksi  

Bye
再见  
Heippa  

I Love You
我爱你  
Minä rakastan sinua  

Excuse Me
原谅我  
Anteeksi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Guangzhou  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
outside mainland China  
Finland  

Dialect 2
Xiguan  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
Hong Kong  
Finland, Rauma  

Dialect 3
Hong Kong  
Meänkieli  

Where They Speak
Hong Kong  
Finland, Sweden  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
60,000.00  
31

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
60.00 million  
27
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
16.00 %  
2
Not Available  

Native Speakers
52.00 million  
21
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
0.01 million  
39

Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa  
suomi / suomen kieli  

Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese  
Suomi  

French Name
Not Available  
finnois  

German Name
Not Available  
Finnisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[ˈsuomi]  

Ethnicity
Not Available  
ethnic Finns  

History

Origin
17th century  
1543  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Uralic Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Finno-Ugric  

Branch
Not Available  
Finnic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Proto-Finnic language  

Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese  
standard Finnish  

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available  
fi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
Not Available  
fin  

ISO 639 2/B
Not Available  
fin  

ISO 639 3
No data available  
fin  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
cant1236  
finn1318  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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

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Cantonese and Finnish Speaking population

Cantonese and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available. 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 Cantonese and Finnish on Cantonese vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Cantonese and Finnish Language Codes

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

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