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Estonian and Russian


Russian and Estonian


Countries

Countries
Estonia, European Union   
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
4   
11

National Language
Estonia, Gambia   
Russia   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Afganistan   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia, Europe   

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   

Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language   
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences   

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.
  

Similar To
Finnish   
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
27   
9
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9   
6
10   
7

How Many Consonants
18   
8
21   
11

Scripts
Latin   
Cyrillic   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
Tere   
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)   

Thank You
aitäh   
спасибо(spasibo)   

How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb   
Как дела? (Kak dela?)   

Good Night
Head ööd   
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)   

Good Evening
Tere õhtust   
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)   

Good Afternoon
Tere päevast   
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')   

Good Morning
Tere hommikust   
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)   

Please
Palun   
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)   

Sorry
Vabandust   
Извините(Izvinite)   

Bye
Head aega   
до свидания(do svidaniya)   

I Love You
ma armastan sind   
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)   

Excuse Me
Vabandage   
извините(izvinite)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Keskmurre   
Doukhobor Russian   

Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia   
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
30,000.00   
99+

Dialect 2
Tartu   
Olonets   

Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia   
Olonets   

Dialect 3
Idamurre   
Novgorod   

Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.   
Novgorod   

Total No. Of Dialects
8   
8
13   
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.10 million   
99+
276.00 million   
6

Speaking Population
Not Available   
2.33 %   
9

Native Speakers
0.95 million   
99+
166.00 million   
8

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
110.00 million   
7

Native Name
eesti keel   
Русский   

Alternative Names
Eesti keel   
Russki   

French Name
estonien   
russe   

German Name
Estnisch   
Russisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]   

Ethnicity
Estonians   
Russians   

History

Origin
13th century   
1000 AD   

Language Family
Uralic Family   
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family   

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric   
Slavic   

Branch
Finnic   
Eastern   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old East Slavic   

Standard Forms
Estonian   
Standard Russian   

Language Position
Not Available   
7   
7

Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language   
Signed Russian   

Scope
Macrolanguage   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
et   
ru   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
est   
rus   

ISO 639 2/B
est   
rus   

ISO 639 3
est   
rus   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
esto1258   
russ1263   

Linguasphere
No data available   
53-AAA-ea   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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All Estonian and Russian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Estonian and Russian dialects. Various dialects of Estonian and Russian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Estonian are spoken in different Estonian Speaking Countries whereas Russian Dialects are spoken in different Russian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Estonian vs Russian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Estonian dialects include: Keskmurre, Tartu. Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian , Olonets. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Estonian and Russian Speaking population

Estonian and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Estonian and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Estonian and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Estonian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Russian on Estonian vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Estonian and Russian Language Codes

Estonian and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Estonian and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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