Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Finnish
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
Palun
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
آسف
  
Bye
Head aega
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
eesti keel
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
estonien
  
arabe
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Arabs
  
Origin
13th century
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic