Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
European Union, Finland
National Language
China, Taiwan
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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
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Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
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