Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
India
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Govenment of Goa
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
  
Similar To
Finnish
  
Marathi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
Namaskar
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
Dev Borem Korum
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
kaso assa?
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
Rati Boren Zavonn
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
Sanj Borem Zavonn
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
Dis Borem Zavonn
  
Please
Palun
  
Chike
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
Maf kor
  
Bye
Head aega
  
Adeus
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
hav tujo mog korta.
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
upkar korxi
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Antruz
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Goa
  
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
7.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
7.40 million
  
99+
Native Name
eesti keel
  
Kōṅkaṇī
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
  
French Name
estonien
  
konkani
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Konkani
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
kõkɳi
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Konkanis
  
Origin
13th century
  
1209 A.D.
  
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
  
Kokani
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
kok
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
kok
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
kok
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
goan1235
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Not Available
  
Estonian and Konkani 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 Konkani greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Konkani language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Konkani word for "Thank You" is Dev Borem Korum. Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Konkani Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Estonian vs Konkani Difficulty
The Estonian vs Konkani difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian Alphabets and Konkani 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 Konkani are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Konkani, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Konkani time required is 4 weeks.