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Cantonese vs Finnish


Finnish vs 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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Cantonese and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Cantonese vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Cantonese and Finnish language. History of Cantonese language states that this language originated in 17th century whereas history of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Cantonese and Finnish Language History.

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Cantonese and Finnish Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Cantonese and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and Finnish language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Cantonese vs Finnish Difficulty

The Cantonese vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese Alphabets and Finnish Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Cantonese and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.

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