1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Estonia, European Union
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Estonia, Gambia
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
1.7 Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
1.9 Similar To
Finnish
1.10 Derived From
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Tere
3.2 Thank You
aitäh
3.3 How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
3.4 Good Night
Head ööd
3.5 Good Evening
Tere õhtust
3.6 Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
3.7 Good Morning
Tere hommikust
3.8 Please
Palun
3.9 Sorry
Vabandust
3.10 Bye
Head aega
3.11 I Love You
ma armastan sind
3.12 Excuse Me
Vabandage
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Keskmurre
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Tartu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Idamurre
4.3.1 Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
Rank: 86 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
0.95 million
Rank: 81 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
eesti keel
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eesti keel
5.3.4 French Name
estonien
5.3.5 German Name
Estnisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Estonians
6 History
6.1 Origin
13th century
6.2 Language Family
Uralic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
6.2.2 Branch
Finnic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Estonian
6.3.3 Language Position
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1
120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
et
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
est
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
est
7.3 ISO 639 3
est
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
esto1258
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative