1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Finland
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.4 Total No. Of Countries
1.8 National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
China, Taiwan
1.9 Second Language
Estonia
Republic of Brazil
1.10 Speaking Continents
1.11 Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.12 Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.13 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.
1.14 Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Not Available
1.15 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Mandarin
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Finland
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA80,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000.0060,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.40 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.40 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
0.01 million178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Uralic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating