Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
France
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
Finnish
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
Bonjour
  
Please
Palun
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
désolé
  
Bye
Head aega
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Africa
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
163.00 million
  
11
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
eesti keel
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Français
  
French Name
estonien
  
français
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
13th century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Romance
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Standard French
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic