Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
European Union, Slovenia
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
  
Similar To
Finnish
  
Serbo-Croatian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Slovene-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
Halo
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
Hvala
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
Kako se imate?
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
Lahko noč
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
Dober večer
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
Dober dan
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
Dobro jutro
  
Please
Palun
  
Prosim
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Head aega
  
Nasvidenje
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
Ljubim te
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
Oprostite
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Prekmurje Slovene
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Hungary, Slovenia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Resian
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Italy
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Styrian
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Slovenia
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
2.50 million
  
99+
Native Name
eesti keel
  
Not available
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Slovenian, Slovenscina
  
French Name
estonien
  
slovène
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Slowenisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Slovenes
  
Origin
13th century
  
972-1093
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Slovene
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
sl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
slv
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
slv
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
slv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
slov1268
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-f
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional
  
Estonian and Slovene Speaking population
Estonian and Slovene speaking population is one of the factors based on which Estonian and Slovene languages can be compared. The total count of Estonian and Slovene Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Estonian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Slovene language is Not Available. 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 Slovene on Estonian vs Slovene where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Estonian and Slovene Language Codes
Estonian and Slovene language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Estonian and Slovene Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.