Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Hong Kong, Macau
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
China, Guangdong
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Hawaii
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
您好
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
谢谢
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
你好吗?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
晚安
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
晚上好
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
下午好
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
早上好
  
Please
haluta
  
请
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
遗憾
  
Bye
Heippa
  
再见
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
我爱你
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
原谅我
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Guangzhou
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
outside mainland China
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Xiguan
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Hong Kong
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Hong Kong
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
27
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
52.00 million
  
21
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
French Name
finnois
  
Not Available
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Not Available
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1543
  
17th century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Standard Cantonese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
cant1236
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Finnish and Cantonese Speaking population
Finnish and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. 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 Finnish and Cantonese on Finnish vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and Cantonese Language Codes
Finnish and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.