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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
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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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Chinese and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Chinese vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Chinese and Finnish language. History of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC 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 Chinese and Finnish Language History.

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Chinese 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 Chinese and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Finnish language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Chinese vs Finnish Difficulty

The Chinese vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese 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 Chinese and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.

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