Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Estonia, European Union
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
Estonia, Gambia
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Finnish
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Tere
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
aitäh
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
kuidas sul läheb
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Head ööd
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Tere õhtust
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Tere päevast
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Tere hommikust
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
Palun
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Vabandust
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
Head aega
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
ma armastan sind
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Vabandage
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Keskmurre
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Tartu
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Georgia, South Estonia
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Idamurre
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
1.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
0.95 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
Not Available
  
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
eesti keel
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Eesti keel
  
French Name
chinois
  
estonien
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Estnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Estonians
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Estonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Estonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
et
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
est
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
est
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
est
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
esto1258
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Agglutinative
  
Chinese and Estonian Speaking population
Chinese and Estonian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chinese and Estonian languages can be compared. The total count of Chinese and Estonian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Estonian language is Not Available. 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 Chinese and Estonian on Chinese vs Estonian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Chinese and Estonian Language Codes
Chinese and Estonian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Chinese and Estonian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.