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
Not Available
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Moi
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
haluta
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Suomi
  
French Name
chinois
  
finnois
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
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 Chinese
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Chinese and Finnish Speaking population
Chinese and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chinese and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Chinese and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chinese 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 Chinese and Finnish on Chinese vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Chinese and Finnish Language Codes
Chinese and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Chinese and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.