Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Estonia, European Union
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Estonia, Gambia
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
Tere
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
aitäh
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
kuidas sul läheb
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
Head ööd
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
Tere õhtust
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
Tere päevast
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
Tere hommikust
  
Please
Please
  
Palun
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
Vabandust
  
Bye
Bye
  
Head aega
  
I Love You
I love you
  
ma armastan sind
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
Vabandage
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Keskmurre
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Tartu
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Georgia, South Estonia
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Idamurre
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
1.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
0.95 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
Not Available
  
Native Name
English
  
eesti keel
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Eesti keel
  
French Name
anglais
  
estonien
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Estnisch
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Estonians
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Estonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Estonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
et
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
est
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
est
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
est
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
esto1258
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative