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Finnish and Chinese


Countries

Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan   
European Union, Finland   

Total No. Of Countries
5   
10
2   
13

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

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

Alphabets
26   
8
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
24   
19
8   
5

How Many Consonants
23   
13
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
6   
5
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks   
13
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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   

Dialects

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
60,000.00   
31

Total No. Of Dialects
10   
10
21   
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million   
2
5.40 million   
99+

Speaking Population
16.00 %   
2
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   

History

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
1   
1
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

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   

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

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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.

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