Countries
European Union, Finland
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
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.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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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 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
haluta
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
Heippa
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
1,051.00 million
  
2
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Not Available
  
French Name
finnois
  
chinois
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Han
  
Origin
1543
  
1250 BC
  
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 Chinese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Finnish and Chinese Speaking population
Finnish and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese 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 Chinese on Finnish vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and Chinese Language Codes
Finnish and Chinese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Chinese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.