Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
Ghana, Ivory coast
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
Ghana
  
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
  
Benin, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Akan Orthography Committee
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
  
Similar To
Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Akan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
ete-sen
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
meda ase
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
wo ho te sɛn?
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
maadwo
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
maadwo
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
maaha
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
maakye
  
Please
Palun
  
wae
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
Kafra
  
Bye
Head aega
  
bye
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
Me doכ wo
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
mepa wo kyɛw
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Asante
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Ghana
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
9,000,000.00
  
13
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Akuapem
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Ghana
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
9,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Fante
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Ghana
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,900,000.00
  
15
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
11.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
11.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
eesti keel
  
Akan
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Not Available
  
French Name
estonien
  
akan
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Akan-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Akan people
  
Origin
13th century
  
15
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Akan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
ak
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
aka
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
aka
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
aka
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
akan1251
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Not Available
  
Estonian and Akan Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Estonian and Akan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Akan language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Akan word for "Thank You" is meda ase. Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Akan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Estonian vs Akan Difficulty
The Estonian vs Akan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian Alphabets and Akan Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Estonian and Akan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Akan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Akan time required is 44 weeks.