1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
European Union, Finland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Estonia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Institute for the Languages of Finland
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Estonian and Livonian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Mitä kuuluu?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Hyvää iltaa
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Hyvää iltapäivää
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Hyvää huomenta
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Minä rakastan sinua
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Colloquial Finnish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Finland
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Finland, Rauma
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Finland, Sweden
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0060,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million5.40 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million5.40 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
suomi / suomen kieli
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Uralic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Finno-Ugric
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
standard Finnish
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Finnish
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative, Synthetic