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Chinese and Finnish


Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
5   
10

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

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

Alphabets
29   
11
26   
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8   
5
24   
19

How Many Consonants
13   
3
23   
13

Scripts
Latin   
Chinese Characters and derivatives   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
88 weeks   
13

Greetings

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)   

Dialects

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
60,000.00   
31
60,000,000.00   
2

Total No. Of Dialects
21   
19
10   
10

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
16.00 %   
2

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   

History

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   
1   
1

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

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

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   

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

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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.

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