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About Estonian Language



Countries
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Countries
Estonia, European Union 0

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

National Language
Estonia, Gambia 0

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries 0

Speaking Continents
Europe 0

Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden 0

Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language 0

Interesting Facts
  • Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
  • Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
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Similar To
Finnish 0

Derived From
Not Available 0

Alphabets
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Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
27 9

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
9 6

How Many Consonants
18 8

Scripts
Latin 0

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal 0

Hard to Learn
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Language Levels
2 1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 11

Greetings
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Hello
Tere 0

Thank You
aitäh 0

How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb 0

Good Night
Head ööd 0

Good Evening
Tere õhtust 0

Good Afternoon
Tere päevast 0

Good Morning
Tere hommikust 0

Please
Palun 0

Sorry
Vabandust 0

Bye
Head aega 0

I Love You
ma armastan sind 0

Excuse Me
Vabandage 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Keskmurre 0

Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 2
Tartu 0

Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 3
Idamurre 0

Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi. 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Total No. Of Dialects
8 8

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
1.10 million 86

Speaking Population
Not Available 0

Native Speakers
0.95 million 81

Second Language Speakers
Not Available 0

Native Name
eesti keel 0

Alternative Names
Eesti keel 0

French Name
estonien 0

German Name
Estnisch 0

Pronunciation
Not Available 0

Ethnicity
Estonians 0

History
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Origin
13th century 0

Language Family
Uralic Family 0

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric 0

Branch
Finnic 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
No early forms 0

Standard Forms
Estonian 0

Language Position
Not Available 0

Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language 0

Scope
Macrolanguage 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
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ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
est 0

ISO 639 2/B
est 0

ISO 639 3
est 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
esto1258 0

Linguasphere
No data available 0

Types of Language
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Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object 0

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative 0

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Know Alphabets in Estonian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Estonian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Estonian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Estonian. Estonian phonology gives Estonian vowels and Estonian consonants. There are 9 vowels and 18 consonants in Estonian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Estonian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Estonian language is given in detail in this section.

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All Estonian countries

Want to explore all Estonian countries? About Estonian language serves you with all Estonian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Estonian as official language are called as Estonian countries.

  • Countries that use Estonian as their National Language are: Estonia, Gambia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Estonian as second language are: Estonian is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Estonian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Estonian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Estonian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Estonian language.Learn Estonian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Tere
  • Thank you: aitäh
  • Good Morning: Tere hommikust
  • Good Evening: Tere õhtust
  • Good Afternoon: Tere päevast

All Estonian Language Codes

Get to know all Estonian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Estonian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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