1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Estonia, European Union
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
1.9 Similar To
Finnish
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Tere
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
3.4 Good Night
Head ööd
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
3.5 Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
3.7 Good Morning
Tere hommikust
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
3.8 Please
Palun
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
3.9 Sorry
Vabandust
Извините(Izvinite)
3.10 Bye
Head aega
до свидания(do svidaniya)
3.11 I Love You
ma armastan sind
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Vabandage
извините(izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Doukhobor Russian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Olonets
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Novgorod
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.10 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.95 million166.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA110.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Estonian
Standard Russian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Signed Russian
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic