Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Finnish
  
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
Habari
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
Asante
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
Habari gani?
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
Usiku mwema
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
Habari za jioni
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
nzuri Alasiri
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
Habari za asubuhi
  
Please
Palun
  
tafadhali
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
pole
  
Bye
Head aega
  
bye
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
nakupenda
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
Samahani
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Kiunguja
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Zanzibar island
  
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Kimrima
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Dar es Salaam
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Kimgao
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Kilwa
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
150.00 million
  
13
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
15.00 million
  
40
Native Name
eesti keel
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
French Name
estonien
  
swahili
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Swahili
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Origin
13th century
  
6th century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Swahili
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
sw
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
swa
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
swa
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
swa
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
swah1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
99-AUS-m
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Not Available
  
Estonian and Swahili Speaking population
Estonian and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Estonian and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Estonian and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Estonian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili 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 Swahili on Estonian vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Estonian and Swahili Language Codes
Estonian and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Estonian and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.