Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
East Asia, European Union, South America
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
East Asia, European Union
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Akademio de Esperanto
  
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 most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  
Similar To
Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Esperanto-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
Halo
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
Dankon
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
Kiel vi sanas?
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
Bonan nokton
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
Bonan vesperon
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
Bonan posttagmezon
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
Bonan matenon
  
Please
Palun
  
Mi petas
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
Mi bedaŭras!
  
Bye
Head aega
  
Ĝis poste
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
Mi amas vin
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
Pardonu!
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Not present
  
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Not present
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Not present
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
2.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
0.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
eesti keel
  
Esperanto
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
  
French Name
estonien
  
espéranto
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Esperanto
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[espeˈranto]
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
13th century
  
1887
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Esperanto
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Esperanto
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Signuno
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
eo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
epo
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
epo
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
epo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
espe1235
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
51-AAB-da
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Constructed
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Agglutinative
  
Estonian and Esperanto 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 Esperanto greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Esperanto language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Esperanto word for "Thank You" is Dankon. Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Esperanto Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Estonian vs Esperanto Difficulty
The Estonian vs Esperanto difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian Alphabets and Esperanto 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 Esperanto are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Esperanto, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Esperanto time required is 6 weeks.