Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Council for German Orthography
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Finnish
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
hallo
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
Palun
  
bitte
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Head aega
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
229.00 million
  
8
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
eesti keel
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
estonien
  
allemand
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Germans
  
Origin
13th century
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Estonian and German Speaking population
Estonian and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Estonian and German languages can be compared. The total count of Estonian and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Estonian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 Estonian and German on Estonian vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Estonian and German Language Codes
Estonian and German language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Estonian and German Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.