Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
European Union, Ireland
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
Ireland
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Ireland
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
United Kingdom
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Foras na Gaeilge
  
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 Irish language, there are no exact words for "yes" or "no".
- There are different set of numbers for counting humans and another set for counting non-humans in Irish Language.
  
Similar To
Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Irish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
Dia dhuit
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
Go raibh maith agat
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
Conas atá tú ?
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
Oíche mhaith
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
Tráthnóna maith duit
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
Tráthnóna maith duit
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
Dia dhuit ar maidin
  
Please
Palun
  
le do thoil
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
Tá brón orm
  
Bye
Head aega
  
Slán
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
Is breá liom thú
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
Gabh mo leithscéal
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Connacht Irish
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Connacht
  
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Munster Irish
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Munster
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Ulster Irish
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Ulster
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
1.79 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
0.14 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.65 million
  
35
Native Name
eesti keel
  
Gaeilge (na hÉireann) / An Ghaeilge
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish
  
French Name
estonien
  
irlandais moyen
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Mittelirisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈɡeːlʲɟə]
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Irish people
  
Origin
13th century
  
c. 750
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Celtic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Goidelic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Primitive Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Classical Irish, Irish
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
An Caighdeán Oifigiúil
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Irish Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
ga
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
gle
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
gle
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
gle
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
iris1253
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
50-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional
  
Estonian and Irish 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 Irish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Irish language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Irish word for "Thank You" is Go raibh maith agat. Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Irish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Estonian vs Irish Difficulty
The Estonian vs Irish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian Alphabets and Irish 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 Irish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Irish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Irish time required is 36 weeks.